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Low lux colour CMOS camera?

  • Thread starter Daniel Kelly \(AKA Jack\)
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Daniel Kelly \(AKA Jack\)

Hi again,

Does anyone know of a miniature color PAL CMOS camera sensative to 1 Lux or
less?

I have found very sensitive colour CCD cameras and fairly sensitive B&W CMOS
cameras but no sensitive CMOS cameras.

Thanks in advance,
Jack
 
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Daniel Kelly \(AKA Jack\)

One more question:

Am I getting confused by the physics? In other words, if I have a white
light source of, say, 1W, will this be detected with the same efficiency by
both a 3lux colour camera and a 1lux B&W camera? I ask this because I now
know that lux is a psychometric unit - it takes into account the efficiency
with which the human eye sees different wavelengths.

See:

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae409.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux

Thanks,
Jack
 
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