ASI 1600 MC: strange artifact when using HW 2x2 bin

chripell

Hi,

I am attaching a frame showing the effect. Is this somehow related to the latest drivers switching the default for 2x2 binning in HW to off? :-)

Thanks!

Sam@ZWO

Hi Chris

I think this is because it is a color sensor

the color pixel is not near each other

chripell

Sam wrote:
Hi Chris

I think this is because it is a color sensor

the color pixel is not near each other

So you mean that the HW binning doesn't take in account the Bayer pattern? :-O

Sam@ZWO

chripell wrote:
Sam wrote:Hi Chris

I think this is because it is a color sensor

the color pixel is not near each other

So you mean that the HW binning doesn't take in account the Bayer pattern? :-O

there is no way to take in account the Bayer pattern if you choose color binning

mono binning is the only way to fix it

chripell

Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense, the natural binning would be combine 4 pixels to 1 by using the average of the 2 greens, R and B. But this means changing the format of the image. Now that the USB buffer problem is fixed, will capture raw and do this way in post-processing (for example DSS calls it "super pixel"). Thanks!

Sam@ZWO

we also did some improvement in our software

just released one new ASCOM driver

we will release our SDK too