1CM69 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Hi all, I've managed to get hold of a Meade f3.3 reducer and seeing that it's designed for very small chip CCD cameras I have been wondering if I could perhaps hook my iPhone up to it & get pleasing results via video recording and then running this vid through PIPP. i would have thought the the iPhone sensor would be small enough for this purpose. My only image capturing device at the moment is my DSLR which does not capture video. I'll post up any result that I get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngwillym Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I doubt it - you'd need to remove the lens from the iphone camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1CM69 Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 30 minutes ago, ngwillym said: I doubt it - you'd need to remove the lens from the iphone camera How about if I used a webcam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngwillym Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Again - possible if you remove the webcams lens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornelius Varley Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 2 hours ago, 1CM69 said: Hi all, I've managed to get hold of a Meade f3.3 reducer and seeing that it's designed for very small chip CCD cameras I have been wondering if I could perhaps hook my iPhone up to it & get pleasing results via video recording and then running this vid through PIPP. i would have thought the the iPhone sensor would be small enough for this purpose. My only image capturing device at the moment is my DSLR which does not capture video. I'll post up any result that I get. The Meade f3.3 reducer was designed for use with webcam sized sensors ie Meade DSI cameras or similar so should be useable with a webcam, assuming the camera is sensitive enough for DSO imaging, otherwise lunar imaging only. The resultant lunar images would not have the same degree of detail as creating a mosaic though because you would be capturing a larger area onto a small sensor. Using the reducer with a mobile phone wouldn't work because you need to image through a lens (afocal imaging) with a camera with a fixed lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demonperformer Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 As a bit of an aside, I have this reducer, and have always found the f5 option (path 1B in the instructions) to produce MUCH better results than the f3.3 option (path 1A). So it might be worth trying this if you get no joy at f3.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave In Vermont Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 I've been curious about this as well. The old Meade 3.3 FR's are pretty hard to come by over here - but I've have one. And I've been tinkering with it, off & on, for awhile - nothing conclusive though. I'll be most interested to hear/read your findings. I have 5 different types of video-cams at my disposal. So any results will be fascinating to me! Thank's for posting! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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