Well, here's my first image with the new PGR Flea3 camera, what a beast - much higher red sensitivity than the old camera, and higher in green as well. Blue seems about on par.
Anyhow, here's an image, real size as captured. Lots to see, including the SED storm which can be clearly seen in multiple bright cores.
Thinking of buying one myself, I have an old Dell laptop running vista that I can wipe and install Linux. Its been about 6 years since i last played with Linux what version are you using?
I asked this in another thread but Price of Flea shipped to Aus?
Hi Trick - running under Linux is tricky (sorry about that). Modern linux distros have switched to a new firewire driver setup that my capture software is not compatible with, so I'm running a mix of a new distro + old, custom compiled kernel.
If you're into that sort of thing, then linux kernel 2.6.28 with the "old" firewire stack enabled will do nicely.
On the other hand, if you want to use Windows instead then there are a couple of people (not me) working on capture software for that as well.
Looking very good so far. Nice capture of the storm too. Even some slight detail showing in some of the bands. What sort of download rates are you getting Anthony?
Answering some questions... Paul my capture app is limited to 50fps in 16 bit, but the camera can do up to about double that, it's 1394b (firewire-800) so it should be good for almost 80Mb/s. I've set this limit so it doesn't use too much cpu time and starve the other programs I have running, but now that I'm capturing to a usb3 external drive maybe I can remove that cap.
Mike, there are usb and GiG-E versions coming later this year, also Torsten Edelmann is adding support to his Firecapture software for Windows.
Trevor, the camera is really only 12 bit, so the bottom 4 bits in the 16 bit data are all zero. But the advantage is that you get more shades of grey - 12 bit is enough for 4096 shades between black and white, versus 256 shades for 8 bit cameras.
Trevor, the camera is really only 12 bit, so the bottom 4 bits in the 16 bit data are all zero. But the advantage is that you get more shades of grey - 12 bit is enough for 4096 shades between black and white, versus 256 shades for 8 bit cameras.
cheers, Bird
Thanks for the explanation Bird, I guess that contributes to the increased depth of detail.