IMX429 monochrome

JM41France

Hello,

Just a question about future development:

Will it have in near future a camera with IMX429mm for solar imaging ?

Thanks for your reply

Jmarc

Tech@ZWO

There is no such plan at the moment. You can continue to follow our social media and we will release it if there is any news.

wvreeven

Tech@ZWO I keep on requesting that announcements also are done in the Announcements part of this forum. Many users on this forum don't use social media and still are interested in the announcements of ZWO. I have been requesting this here for more than three years now. Thank you for finally taking this request seriously.

JM41France

Hello
Effectively, I don’t use social média. Thanks.
For the caméra It’s a shame. This sensor seems THE sensor for the sun imaging and player one use it.
As I am user of ZWO , I do not wish to change with player one…
ASI174 is begining to be old and the new ASI 432 is to specific.
Thanks for reply

Tech@ZWO

JM41France
Don’t get me wrong, we will be launching more and more products like the ASI 2600 MC AIR.

JM41France

Ok. But not sure that will be a good idea...
For sun and planetary photography, not usable to have double sensor.
For Deep sky photography, guiding sensor behind ultra narrow band filter is not good idea even if the new sensor are more sensitive.
And Asiair integrated...how does work the mount ?
AsiAir integrated for planetary ...the speed read is not sufficient, USB3 link is better and AVI is not a good extension for the movies.

But I am only tell you because I am an older user of ZWO equipment and satisfy but what in the future...? I will see like several other user.

JM41France

If we have a mount on witch we want to use it with Canon or Nicon … we need deported Asiair.

If we buy caméra with Asiair integrated for deep sky, ok. Then if I want to make planetary photography, I must buy again a caméra with Asiair integrated ? Because no system deported to control my mount ?

Asiair is a very good control system but let’s keep it deported.
To much close your system will be not a good idea for the user and then for you…

Best regards

Astrop

You want to limit the possibility of redundancy. By ploughing more and more tech into one device increases the probability of something going wrong, then the user will have an expensive paperweight to deal with. If one of my asiairs acts up, I can simply swap it for another one or an RPI or a pc and carry on, same with cameras, swap for another.