ToUcam 740 Pro ICX-098BL B/W Mod (2)

First sensitivity test

After finishing the ToUcam B/W mod I ran some tests against a std ToUcam pro regarding CCD sensitivity. Here the cam settings used for all captures dumped with martin Burri's wonderfull WcCtrl:

******** Capture Settings: Mittwoch, 29. September 2004 / 20:50:44 ********
Program : WcCtrl - WebCam Control Utility (V 1.0.11)
Cam Driver : Philips ToUcam Pro Camera; Video
******** Capture Cam Settings: 29.09.2004 20:50:44 ********
Brightness : 50% - raw: 63 (0 .. 127)
Saturation : 100% - raw: 100 (-100 .. 100)
Gamma : 0% - raw: 0 (0 .. 31)
FPS : 0 (0..5=5,10,15,20,25,30)
Gain : 0% - raw: 0 (0 .. 63)
-end of setting------------------------------------------------

Illumination of the object was constant for all captures.

1. ToUcam ICX-098BL B/W with std EPROM:

2. ToUcam ICX-098BL B/W in b/w raw mode:

3. ToUcam ICX-098BQ color with std EPROM:

4. ToUcam ICX-098BQ color with std EPROM in black&white mode:

5. ToUcam ICX-098BQ color, optimized nonraw mode:

6. ToUcam ICX-098BQ color, color raw mode, debayer with AVIRaw:

Conclusions

The increased sensitivity of the b/w CCD is obvious (integrated light). According to the spectral sensitivity curves from the datasheets the yield of sensitivity in the near UV band will be even higher than for the integrated light.

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