Possibility to ask for an upgraded existing mono sensor ?

xs_man

Hi Sam,

Hi Sean,

I go on with my endless an desperate quest of the perfect medium-sized monochome

sensor...

As waiting one from Sony is a useless dream, I was wondering if a possible

solution would not be a custom modified existing sensor ?

I'm not thinking of a hard debayered color sensor but an improved version of

an existing monochrome sensor.

For me the best target is the PANASONIC MN34230PL used in several cameras.

Nearly perfect but I personnaly don't want to buy it because of it's limited

QE. Only 60% pic in visible light, when last Sony sensors are equal or more than

80% pic in visible light !

MN34230PL is not a recent sensor so I hope that an optimized version could

greatly increase QE to an acceptable value. Of course the most important is to

increase QE of visible light and why not in Ir if possible. And do not

modify read noise and pixel size !

Of course the price of upgraded sensor will be greatly higher, I know.

But it's worth even at 2x the actual price !

Please could you ask to PANASONIC if such an operation is possible ? :?:

Albéric

Support@ZWO

Hi Albéric

Thanks for your frankness. We are a very small market, we did try to ask Panasonic and Sony if they could make some sensor suitable for astronomic imaging. But, I think it is a long way to go. We will keep trying to tell them about feature requests of sensors, until they accept our suggestion.

Thanks again.

xs_man

Hi Chad,

You don't have an easy job ! ;)

Sensor manufacturers don't help us !

I was hoping that Panasonic would be more careful and comprehensive to customer's

wishes than Sony ? Especialy for the monochrome sensor version which surely have a

limited market. But they have it in their catalog, so it's enough interesting for them to

keep it.

Albéric

Support@ZWO

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