I am a newbie, starting to use an ASI6200MC Pro colour camera. In the ASIStudio instructions (ASICap Manual) only one file format is mentioned: PNG. However, in my first attempts to use the system I somehow obtained a TIFF file, which is what I would like to have for processing in other software such as Image J (FIJI), but I have been unable to repeat this. Also, I can find no guidance about why there is an opportunity to select RAW in the image panel E, but also a RAW DATA button in the Capture box, which, when unchecked, gives a stored colour image like that seen on the computer screen.
I am aware that the ASIImage option in ASIStudio allows me to save JPEG or FIT files, and that another section of the software, which does not seem to have a manual, allows FIT files to be transformed into some other format. I bought the colour camera to check chromatic aberrations in a prototype microscope, not an astronomical telescope, and it does that job in real time very well. But in the field of microscopy TIFF files are greatly preferred and colour filters and light sources of different colours are used to explore specimens, particularly fluorescent ones. A Bayer screen is not needed. Do I have to buy a different camera to get high quality monochrome TIFF files at high resolution? It seems to me that the ASI6200MC Pro colour camera might be able to produce raw images that could be converted to TIFF, discarding the colour information. Is this possible?
