I've only been using this mono camera for about 9 months but I find it far more annoying to find and click all the correct cal files for DSS than it is to just get maxim to do it all. Generally, if all the files are good, getting maxim to do the lot works for me. If it looks like crap then I'll go back and fiddle with L. The QHY8 was easier in DSS though, Maxim always had trouble aligning images from it which may have been due to that damn overscan area. I've attached a sample of a maxim run from the 1.3Mp camera taken from the back yard. Looks ok to me.
That said, I guess
this is the way to do it.