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Originally Posted by Meru
Hmmm that's a good point, I can always bin in software. So maybe spend the first night getting a few subs of each and then see what the data looks like? And when you say not much benefit are you referring to the shallow well depth and not much gain in quality of data when binning on the 8300? Or something else?
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The only benefit of hardware binning is reduced read noise. In a perfect world you'd get the same read noise for a 2x2 superpixel as you get for a single pixel read. The KAF-8300 sensor doesn't do as well as some others. There's probably some benefit but it's only small and if you're doing decent length subs so that read noise isn't overwhelming then it will be even smaller. Better to do unbinned and have the extra flexibility.
Cheers,
Rick.