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I just took the plunge and ordered a 2600 this morning. With any luck I will have it in early July. Thankfully my imaging PC and processing PC will be up to the task with the bigger files. The imaging one was overkill to start with as I wanted snappy plate solving, and the processing box is brand new and the most grunty PC I have ever had by a big margin.
Give it a year and I will probably stick a filter wheel in front of it so that I can add a HA filter to the train. My only issue there is that apparently the 2600 has an IR cut window on the sensor chamber which makes the one I have in my image train now redundant. I might need a plain glass filter the same thickness as any NB filter I put in to keep it all parfocal.
With any luck in a year or two they will have a good CMOS mono APS-C camera on the market. I decided to go with APS-C not stretch the budget for full frame as first, full frame is horribly expensive, and second I got to learn from someone else's recent experience of dialling in a larger format sensor where microns of tilt measured in single digits are causing him grief even now.
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