Hmm - that's because alot of the camera is on the chip itself and so streaming can be easier to implement - but noise is inherent as a result as there is more of the electronics close to the sensor area. Personally I think for streaming like this (and so by definition for planetary imaging) that cmos-based cameras have been overlooked unjustly. Possibly this can be traced back to the first LE modded webcam which was cmos-based and would "noise-out" after 4 seconds. Thereafter it was ignored by QCUIAG and then by default the future webcam-based imagers to come later and the "CCD Rules" mentality seemd to include all sorts of imaging when it really should have been applied to only the LE side of things.
Arthur
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