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Be very careful of what this guy is promoting. He has a very long thread (2000 posts) on Cloudy Nights on the ongoing development of an external cooler attached to a DSLR base (a highly inefficient and as yet entirely unproved design). Even the old style cooler boxes are probably more efficient and they are long out of production.
As most well researched DSLR modifiers know, only cold fingers directly cooling the sensor produce the results needed to null noise. The arguement that if you buy a low noise modern DSLR camera (which make cold finger placement very difficult or impossible (but no one has tried it)), then cooling only the base and relying on plastic and frame conduction to get some temperature reduction at the sensor - is frankly wishful thinking.
His designs are entirely unproven on any camera, he has no way of actually measuring sensor temperature (relying on EXIF processor data), and he has avoided any field testing and Dark vs Bias/offset file comparison, which would validate or at least indicate what if any noise reduction was being created. Be aware that he has a commercial interest in selling kits or parts, and camera mods.
It is disappointing that he has now popped up here.
I have reported this thread.
Last edited by glend; 11-03-2016 at 10:11 AM.
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