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Originally Posted by anthony2302749
Really I am providing alternative to what is avaliable on the market. The advantage of the Fire-i camera over the TuCam is uncompress VGA. Like all commercially available webcam there is some type of compress occuring and this mean lost data. Having an uncompress VGA mean that you get the maximum data to process. Why do people use the DMK and like myself use the Lumenera because data means everything. There are other factor too but they have been discussed in passed treads, such as what is the best telescope for plantary imaging, difference between colour and mono etc. I am not here for the "Post Count" I am here to guide people to a reasonable conclusion.
I should also point out that the Fire-i have similar spec to the DMK but at a fraction of the price. The spec of both camera are avaliable at http://www.turnkey-solutions.com.au/index.html take the time have a look. |
Hi Anthony,
I used a unibrain fire-i mono cam for a year or so as my main planetary camera, and it did produce some nice images. However it's worth pointing out that it's cheap for a good reason :-)
In terms of the features implemented in the camera it is significantly behind other cameras like those from Point Grey, ie no format7 support, no flexibility in framerate or exposures beyond the basic standard etc.
I also found a couple of problems with the firewire chipset from TI used in the fire-i camera, it only produces 127 shades per pixel instead of 256 due to a bug, and also there can be some brightness differences between left and right parts of the image (due to another, different bug).
Don't get me wrong - it's the cheapest firewire cam that I know of, and it's probably a good starters camera, but you'll want to upgrade to something better in another year or so.
regards, Bird