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Paul, I have both the monochrome and color versions of the Flea3 camera.
The Firewire-800 cables that came with my first purchase as a part of the "development kit" were very stiff indeed. They were also too darn short. I bought some longer somewhat more flexible Firewire-800 cables online and was much happier.
I also purchased a ExpressCard-34 Firewire-800 adapter online and a 12V DC adapter from Radio Shack to go with it.
I haven't had any problems with the 12VDC adapter disconnecting from the ExpressCard or with the ExpressCard ejecting from the laptop at an inopportune time.
The older 1.x version of FlyCapture was a real POS. I haven't had any trouble using FlyCapture 2.2 (and the 2.2 beta before that) to capture videos of Jupiter at high frame rates. FlyCapture 2.2 works quite well. In my opinion, better than FireCapture. I get much higher frame rates using FlyCapture than I do with FireCapture. The latest FireCapture update can now use the 2.2 support library as well which is a good, so one doesn't have to de-install and re-install the support library to switch back and forth between FlyCapture and FireCapture any more.
I find using the color Flea3 much easier to use on the planets than the monochrome camera with a filter wheel. On the sun the monochrome camera is better, but I've mostly been using the monochrome DMK41 and DMK51 on the sun.
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