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Originally Posted by JohnH
Is there really no difference between an image of, say, 120s binned 2x2 in hware and one of 120s binned 1x1 and then processed in sware? Is it just that the default behavious in H'ware (sum?) and S'ware (average?) binning are not the same?
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This short document I read recently claims there is a signal to noise advantage in hardware binning because it reduces the effect of read noise:
http://www.roperscientific.de/binning.html. Seems like a plausible argument to me...
Cheers,
Rick.