L3 Wescam MX-20 imager

(picture coming soon)

These are pulls from multispectral surveillance pods. They contain cooled (via integrated Stirling cryocooler) 640x512 InSb focal plane arrays. The one I acquired free-runs and outputs video through one of the SMA connectors; unfortunately, the output is not composite or SDI, but HotLink. HotlLink is based on the underlying physical layer and encoding found in SDI, but lacks any sort of standardized frame format.

The camera runs at 32Hz (a strange framerate) and clocks the HotLink output at 240 MHz. They feature an integrated f/4 cold shield, so are really only useful with f/4 telephotos (which is probably what you want to use anyway).

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