On 11/02/2021 20:55, newshound wrote:
On 10/02/2021 23:41, Fredxx wrote:
On 10/02/2021 22:03, newshound wrote:
On 10/02/2021 18:03, Fredxx wrote:
On 10/02/2021 17:50, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Well one assumes its analogue most of the way is it?
Â* I think you hit the nail squarely with the out of date formats
its probably
generating. Might be worth more as a kind of relic?
Â* Brian

To my knowledge this records video onto Mini DV tapes which are a
digital format.

Isn't that the point? It is *a* digital format, but how much
crunching will that need to get it to a modern format?

Personally, I'd stick it on eBay.

It will be uncompressed video.

You say that as if it was a unique thing. The three CCD outputs will go
into some sort of circuitry for merging but who knows what comes out of
that. Almost certainly something both proprietary and obsolete. No doubt
it would be possible to decode it and convert it to something useable,
but I still don't think it would be easy.

In the day that was made there wasn't much in the way of video
compression. There was a wavelet IC if I recall.

Compressing it is trivial with the
various offering incorporating ffmpeg, even through VLC.

The camera may work very well in low light conditions.

Not strictly my field, but given the rate at which sensitivities have
improved, I'd be astonished if a 20 year old CCD would outperform a
modern CMOS.

First there are 3 CCDs, where pretty much all of the light is captured
and used. Modern CMOS chips with a Bayer filter immediately by design at
are best 50% efficient. CMOS image sensors have smaller pixels with less
active area that is photo sensitive.

Low pixel count (SD) CCD technology is lower noise than CMOS:

http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowl...ifference.html

CCD noise is SQRT(number of electrons in a bucket) vs CMOS KTC (popcorn
or 1/f) noise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_noise#Detectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnso...n_cap acitors