Anyone know if you can get the temp of your dslr sensor ?

[rharrison]

Hello,

After a fair bit of googling I'm none the wiser. Anyone know if it's possible to read the sensor temperature on a Canon dslr I'm using a 1200d.

I'd ideally like to take my darks at similar temperatures to my lights.

Rob

[Phillyo]

I believe APT does this? It did with my Canon 7D anyway I'm sure.

[rharrison]

I believe APT does this? It did with my Canon 7D anyway I'm sure.

Quite new, lots of abbreviations to learn DSO's, DSS, CS6 et cetera not sure what software APT is

[Phillyo]

Sorry, APT stands for AstroPhotography Tool created by Ivo (Yoddha), one of the guys on this forum. It is an image capture tool, amongst other things, and is a great place to start when just getting into DSLR astro imaging. I would HIGHLY recommend givng it a try (the trial is free and the full version is only cheap too!!). I think it tells you the temp of your sensor when imaging after each shot?

Phil

[rharrison]

Sorry, APT stands for AstroPhotography Tool created by Ivo (Yoddha), one of the guys on this forum. It is an image capture tool, amongst other things, and is a great place to start when just getting into DSLR astro imaging. I would HIGHLY recommend givng it a try (the trial is free and the full version is only cheap too!!). I think it tells you the temp of your sensor when imaging after each shot?

Phil

Sounds great thanks, I'll look into it now.

I've been using Eos utility.

[Psychobilly]

You can also use exiftool  to get the Sensor temp that an image was capture at...

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Peter...

[rharrison]

Just downloaded APT it's awesome ! Thanks Phillyo

 

[frugal]

Just be aware that the temperature recorded is generally the temperature of somewhere inside the case rather than the actual sensor. The sensor temperature will be higher. It does however give you a temperature that you can use to compare to other images

[Psychobilly]

Or if your building a darks library...