The Art-429C

The ART-429C offers great performance at the price and can produce coloured images without the need for colour filters. The CCD itself has been thorough several revisions at Sony and now offers even better dynamic range compared with its predecessors. Again its an exView for maximum sensitivity and its complementary colour filters enable colour images to be take while sacrificing the minimum of this sensitivity.

CCD		ICX429ALK
Format		1/2 inch
Resolution		752x582
Pixel Size		8.6x8.3 um
One shot colour		Ye, Cy, Mg, and G complementary colour mosaic filters on chip
Read out noise		11 electrons
Dark Current		0.1 electron per sec
Estimated well depth		55000 electrons
Binning		Up to x4 independently in x and y but monochrome only beyond 2x1
Read out Speeds
Full frame high quality		5 seconds
Full frame high speed		3 seconds
Subframe focus update		<1 seconds

Please note that all data based Art-429

Art-429C image taken by Martin Burri (colour reconstruction using 'Mikes' Astroart plug-in). UVIR block used