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Ccd Camera

Is there a way to get better camcorder video quality by replacing its CCD with a CCD from a 9mp still camera?

If the CCD is what picks up the light from the lens, then couldn't you just take a CCD from a still camera, which is usually much better quality, and put it in your camcorder?

The imaging chip is only part of the system. The lenses, firmware in the electronics, storage media, mics, location of the controls, and lots of other design works together to provide the package.

Just replacing the imaging chip - whether CCD or CMOS may have some marginal improvement. But increasing the lens size along with a larger CCD will have a huge impact... By merely replacing a single part, the "weak link" just moves somewhere else.

For example, a car is a system - replacing the motor with a bigger one could make it go faster. But if the rest of the car is not designed to handle that additional horsepower, the rest of the parts will get thrashed, cornering will be bad, the tires won't last as long and the mileage will be terrible.

Your statement makes sense, but does not take the longer view of the different parts working together for optimum balance between the different capabilities of the different parts that make up the whole system. In this case, a too-large imaging chip would be a waste if the lens system was too small to let enough light in that the chip could use.

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Are there better CCD cameras for doing solar images?

I have two CCD cameras a BnW Astrovid camera, and an ST-8 CCD SBIG. I was told that the SBIG wouldn't work because the sun would destroy the CCD chip. Is this true?
I forgot to mention that I would be using it on a solar telescope as well. The coronado solar max 90 by meade if you would like to check it out.

With an image as bright as the sun, high end web cameras like this one

http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/products/firewire-cameras/mono/dmk21af04as/

work the best. They make excellent planetary and solar imagers. There are others, but I cannot recall them all. Stacking hundreds or thousands of individual frames captured with one of these cameras (up to 60 fps) ensures that you only use the best and most resolved frames. Using a traditional CCD will capture one image or frame at a time. This is ok for faint DSOs that require long single exposures, or multiple shorter exposures but they do not excel with objects that are relatively bright like the planets, moon and sun.

Check out this solar image taken with w DMK camera.

http://www.astronomycamerasblog.com/2009/06/03/splendid-solar-image/

The solarmax is already filtered and ready for prime focus photography.