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Allan Adler
- Jan 1, 1970
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Has anyone here ever found a reason to scavenge a ccd chip from an old
digital camera? I'd be interested in learning about your experiences.
I don't have an old or new digital camera. I'm somewhat interested in
the possibility of building a CCD camera, following Richard Berry's CCD
Camera Cookbook, but the Willmann-Bell website estimates it will cost
between $350 and $500, the more optimistic figure being based on the
assumption (false in my case) that one has one's own metal working shop
and the skill to make some of the parts. That's way out of reach for me.
I think it would be good to learn to work with ccd chips, even if I don't
build a camera. The book mentioned above assumes that one has a TC211 or
TC245 chip to build the camera around. I don't know if the book would be
of any value if one tried to use a more modern chip and, unfortunately,
Texas Instruments stopped issuing them in 2003. It is still possible to
get them at high prices from foreign distributors and it is alleged that
University Optics still sells them, even though I can't find any trace
of a role for University Optics at the University Optics website; it is also
alleged that they are cheaper from University Optics.
As long as I am considering such things, however tentatively, it also makes
sense to consider scavenging a CCD chip from a camera to learn to use it.
The exercise might even turn up a TC211 or TC245 chip.
One thing I'm looking for is a CCD camera that has RAW output. Conceivably,
if I find a CCD camera that doesn't have RAW output, but does have a TC211
or TC245 chip, then it might be possible, armed with the CCD Camera Cookbook,
to endow the camera with RAW output capability. The reason I want this is
so that I can use the CCD camera to figure out the temperature of a filament
in a vacuum tube; I'm told that this is possible, but that one needs a camera
with RAW output.
Whether I personally can do it is another matter. But I would at least like
to think about it.
digital camera? I'd be interested in learning about your experiences.
I don't have an old or new digital camera. I'm somewhat interested in
the possibility of building a CCD camera, following Richard Berry's CCD
Camera Cookbook, but the Willmann-Bell website estimates it will cost
between $350 and $500, the more optimistic figure being based on the
assumption (false in my case) that one has one's own metal working shop
and the skill to make some of the parts. That's way out of reach for me.
I think it would be good to learn to work with ccd chips, even if I don't
build a camera. The book mentioned above assumes that one has a TC211 or
TC245 chip to build the camera around. I don't know if the book would be
of any value if one tried to use a more modern chip and, unfortunately,
Texas Instruments stopped issuing them in 2003. It is still possible to
get them at high prices from foreign distributors and it is alleged that
University Optics still sells them, even though I can't find any trace
of a role for University Optics at the University Optics website; it is also
alleged that they are cheaper from University Optics.
As long as I am considering such things, however tentatively, it also makes
sense to consider scavenging a CCD chip from a camera to learn to use it.
The exercise might even turn up a TC211 or TC245 chip.
One thing I'm looking for is a CCD camera that has RAW output. Conceivably,
if I find a CCD camera that doesn't have RAW output, but does have a TC211
or TC245 chip, then it might be possible, armed with the CCD Camera Cookbook,
to endow the camera with RAW output capability. The reason I want this is
so that I can use the CCD camera to figure out the temperature of a filament
in a vacuum tube; I'm told that this is possible, but that one needs a camera
with RAW output.
Whether I personally can do it is another matter. But I would at least like
to think about it.