On another forum we were discussing bias durations and best settings.
One user states the simply selects Bias as the type and leaves the duration at 0.000 ?
I thought if you selected the type as Bias, all that really does is append the filename?
What would the results be if you do not specify a duration?
We request the frame with whatever the camera reports as its Minimum Exposure time. Cameras typically cannot handle a true 0 exposure time as this would basically mean “do nothing” and almost every camera will throw an error if we attempt to request a true 0 exposure.
Thanks,
Jared
That’s kind of what I thought. If it ‘does’ work you really have no idea as to what the duration was!
Anyhow in my case with an ASO071mc its ‘minimum’ duration is 64us. That is seriously short!
I have been using .1 secs but might push that back to .01
Since its a cooled cmos I almost wonder why I am bothering with Bias at all.