[Greg McKaskle]

I'm glad to see people looking into the camera capabilities. I'm still doing that myself.

The BMP capabilities on the camera are interesting to look at. What I found was that the time to transmit the much larger file added a delay comparable to the decompression time. You really don't need to worry about the overhead of the http session. The LV camera VIs use the JPEG cgi and do that currently, and the overhead seemed miniscule.

One thing I recently learned which will make its way into a more official document... When playing with the camera settings, the Exposure priority parameter can have a pretty big impact on performance, especially when in normal to lower light. If you set it to image quality, it will avoid bumping the sensor gain and will drastically lower the framerate when there isn't lots of light. When set to framerate, it will bump gain to preserve framerate which will result in grainier images. I haven't done enough testing to see if this has a negative impact on brightly lit usage. Finally, the default of none lets the camera balance this, changing both.

I'd encourage you to look at the performance pretty soon, and if you find something, I'd be glad to hear about it.

Greg McKaskle