Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>>The plan was to use 1280x1024 since that's what the
>>LCD monitors can display. If we get a better monitor,
>>we'd up the camera settings.
> 
> 
> You might like to look at the little 1/4", 1/3" and so on cameras that are
> available from various places. These come in XGA (1.3MP) and larger sizes,
> and are the type of things used in the likes of cell phone cameras and
> (probably) web cams. They have an I2C control bus and parallel video at
> selectable rates.
> 
> The bit that may get you is sensitivity, but I cannot see that they are
> likely to be that much worse than most other cameras.

Those sorts of cameras are usually CMOS, and have horrid noise levels,
and terrible sensitivity. 2 lux @ f2 compared to 0.003 lux for a
CCD hyperHAD.
ALL the web cams I have found so far are basically VGA with up interpolation
to higher resolutions using software.

Modern consumer cameras have much better noise levels and while
more expensive, have intrinsically more resolution.

But thanks for the comments.

Robert


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