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Hi, the USB traffic control doesn't help this problem. My system is good enough to deal with whatever framerate is produced with the control set to 0. There is no position where the frame rate stops increasing. Some of my testing has been done with unrealistic exposure times, 1 ms for instance. So t...

The camera is a QHY 5III 174. The logs show nothing unusual happening. After more investigation I find its not Sharpcap, or any application, that has problems. Firecapture and PHD2 behave oddly too. I dont hold much hope of being able to dig much deeper into the problems. I'll just go back to USB 2 ...

Hi, Sharpcap doesnt ever seem to show a dropped frame. When I suspect it should it does one of two things; with MONO8 selected it stops capturing at the exposure time set and goes to what I am assuming is flatout fps, ie 133 fps at 640x480 frame size. Image on screen is noticeably dimmer. with MONO1...

Yeah, I see now, I was confusing the disk write test with this test. Anyhoo, what I wanted to discuss with you; I have been trying to set up a system to sit with the mount and scope because it looks like running long USB 3 leads is problematic and/or expensive. So set up a blind system access it rem...

Hi,
firstly, how long should Test Camera 2 (high speed) take to complete?
Mine is now at 1hour 30 mins and 90000 frames!!??!

Barry

Hi Robin, Great idea this forum! I use Sharpcap with a QHY 5 III 174 MM the USB 3 version. Can you tell me what level of support Sharpcap has for this camera? It clearly works but is not in the supported list. I have noticed some issues when using this setup and wanted to try and determine whether i...