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Originally Posted by rat156
Well no Doug, you were bagging the new camera. By simply pointing out the thread on CN and not going into any discussion of the point smacks of "Itoldyousoism" (yep, I made that one up myself), I saw it and thought to myself that it was pretty petty. I then went to the thread and saw the discussion. The user made a mistake in his darkframes, he has not used an astroCCD before and may have not gotten the darkframe proceedure right. He seemed to have fixed it in later posts.
The series of posts concerning the apparent difference in noise between the two cameras are rubbish, I can take a darkframe that shows no hot pixels on my ST-10, and that's got heaps of noise. It all depends on how it's presented. The lines in the SBIG darkframe are common to Kodak chips, they are a hot pixel and the readout cascade. I can't believe that the difference is the electronics behind the chip.
All up I have to agree with Theo on this one, competition is good, if I were thinking of replacing the ST-10,then one of these cameras would be on the list, probably both. The main problem I would have with the QHY is the number of SBIG accessories I have, which like the Nikon v Canon argument means I go for Nikon.
Cheers
Stuart
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Your wrong Stuart, At no point was I bagging the camera, I was just pointing out the fact that one purchaser who comes up with something unusual can be used to degrade the reputation of the cameras in question. Alex certainly used this to point out that SBIG is better.
I have said all along that I doubt there would be very little if any diference between these two cameras. They will fill a very big hole in the market and will be welcomed by many. I may yet buy one myself. The 8300 CCD would be ideal for my FSQ.
As for being pretty petty can you justify not using the same words for Alex's comments earlier where he dredged back 12 months to find problems experienced with the original release of the QHY9 as a justification for buying SBIG. I found these original posts quite offensive as the attempt was directly pointed to threads I had posted on QHY web site some 12 months ago.
These cameras will set a standard in the market both from budget performance and price and will probably lead to other manufacturers lowering prices and maybe even other CCD cameras falling in price as well.