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Old 05-03-2007, 09:06 PM
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Hi

Know a lot of people favour the ToUcam. It has been around for a long time and make for a good planetary camera but I would say its time is nearly at an end such as the EQ5.

I have spoken about Unibrian Fire-i Digital Camera http://www.turnkey-solutions.com.au/..._camera_pc.htm before on IIS and pointed out that it is superior to the ToUcam. It features the same CCD as the ToUcam (ICX-098BQ) but it is a firewire camera (400Mbps) and complys with industrial standard for uncompressed VGA picture acquisition.

What does this mean; you have the ability to image a much higher frame rate then the ToUcam with out the lost of data normally associated with standard webcam and you will have more frames to use in the final processing stage.

The current cost of these camera is about $195.

P.S. If you follow the link and look at the specification of Unibrian Fire-i Digital Camera they are similar to the DMK camera.
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