I spend most of my day trying to make noise-free images, so it is no suprise that I am also interested in the opposite. Our new camera for Proto-4B can capture nearly 10 frames per second for hours. Now that we have the speed I need we will tune the exposure routines (next week’s work).
Self portrait in the calibration lab made during a test of new software. When this picture was taken the new code was in a user hostile pre-alpha mode. I like the noise and banding effect even though it was caused by a bug that we fixed the next day.
The system is now producing low-noise 5MP color images that are over 16 bits deep. Unfortunately the lenses are now the weak link. Once the custom lenses are built and installed (April 2009) I will begin posting the results.