[Doodles23 (Dave Bleser)]

Sorry. Our instruments are essentially the same. Remember I'm the lone Mac guy in the crowd. I use Astro IIDC, a Mac program to capture. And you hit the nail on the head about the gain. Milton, the developer of Astro IIDC would NEVER allow the software to push gain beyond the 24 db ceiling. If pressed, he says "You're just amplifying noise!! Why would you want to do that?". The conversation ends shortly after that outburst. I can run the MacBook in Windows mode and it may be prudent to get Torstens FireCapture.

Incidentally Milton and Point Grey informed me that Astro IIDC will recognize the Flea3. So later this year I will be moving up to that camera from my grey market DR2.

I have attached the dim raw blue tiff captured at 15 fps from the camera. This is shown actual size in the 640 X 480 capture window. The tiff has been converted to a jpg for posting. Naturally I am scared when I hear you mention that Flea3 has somewhat LESS blue sensitivity than the DR2.