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Originally Posted by gregbradley
I thought CMOS is all software binning as they don't have the hardware provision for hardware binning.
Are you noticing an improvement by imaging at 1x1 and then software binning to 2x2 versus setting capture software to 2x2 (which I believe is software binning).
Greg.
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definitely better software binning....you can hardware bin but the noise is higher. Plus it give the option of bin or not.
Attached is one I did as a test to see if there was a difference in signal 1x1 Vs software 2x2...software binning works really well.
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Originally Posted by Nikolas
The detail is astounding Well done mate
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Thank you
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Correct, CCD's improve the SNR by a factor of 4 as binning is performed at the hardware level (in fact, with 3x3 binning it bounces up to 9...but typically 27 micron pixels...not pretty. ).
With CMOS it's a factor of two.
Depending on the FL used, where CMOS binning helps for me is the significant reduction in file size....really helpful with memory handling of dozens, if not hundreds of exposures.
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I did both software and hardware...there is a significant difference with software binning, but as you say the files sizes and shear volume of files and storage needed is massive....Im working on one atm that has over 1200 frames at nearly 100mg each...my PC is having trouble and am going to have figure out a way to do it
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Excellent image Peter; the detail and colour are very nice.
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Cheers Paul