MallinCam SolarCam 8
- Type
- Scientific · Astro
- Sensor
- Sony IMX485
Response
No spectral profile is linked to this camera in the current release.
Sensor information
- imaging: Sony IMX485 · also in 2 other documented cameras
Other cameras in the same sensor family (2)
- QHYCCD QHY5III485C — color, imaging
- ZWO ASI485MC — color, imaging
Sensor-family links do not mean the complete cameras have identical spectral responses.
Source and sensor identification
SolarCam 8 explicitly names IMX485LQJ1 and Sony; the captured product page does not explicitly assign a color/mono mode. Its conflicting 2.90 and 8.4 MP prose is retained as uncertainty, not reconciled by guessing.
Camera specifications
- complete camera response
- false
- mapping evidence sha256
- 41b5cd5cc64c2b00e5be09757a74c35eebdf8a37c08a9b19be6fca6b8c7f6350
- mapping source id
- mallincam-solarcam8
- mapping status
- verified
- native evidence
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- original evidence redistribution
- false
- source scope
- product-documentation
- stock configuration
- true
- undocumented fields
- ["mode"]
Data details
- Evidence status
- verified
- Manufacturer source
- Product documentation
- Camera-to-sensor note
- SolarCam 8 explicitly names IMX485LQJ1 and Sony; the captured product page does not explicitly assign a color/mono mode. Its conflicting 2.90 and 8.4 MP prose is retained as uncertainty, not reconciled by guessing.
- imaging
- Sony IMX485 · Sensor page