Hi Andrew
There is an alternative to the TuCam range of camera. Unibrian produces a firewire camera which will out perform any commercially available webcam when it comes to planetary imaging.
The Unibrain Fire-i Board Digital Camera offers: 400Mbps Firewire,
Uncompressed VGA picture up to 30 fps, Sony ICX-0981/4” CCD, progressive, 659(H)x494(V) square pixels (same as in the TuCam) etc.
These cameras are as good as the DMK's but at a fraction of the price. Unibrain produce 3 models; Colour, Colour-Raw and Monochrome and as of 19/10/06 the Fire-i Board Colour camera is $188 ex GST and the Fire-i Board Mono camera is $277 ex GST
They are avaliable from Turnkey Solution an Australian company. For more info goto
http://www.turnkey-solutions.com.au/...brain_fire.htm
Anthony
P.S. This is the second time that I have mention these camera on IIS. So people take note these are great camera and will make for a very fine planetary camera.