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Old 06-01-2009, 07:49 AM
prenzi (Florian)
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Modification of 8 inch Schmidt camera

Hi Kenny,

I have the pleasure of owning one of the fabulous 8 inch Celestron / Epochs as well and would be interested to learn whether you indeed have succeeded in modding your camera from film to CCD. Had the same idea, but so far have not been able to find someone who could give me some hints on how to do this, where did you get the lens from, at what specs, etc etc. My idea initially was to use one of the big chips with film size, but I might have to downsize due to costs - unless someone on the forum has one of these lying aroung and intends to get rid of it at an affordable price....

We live rural in the Northern Adelaide Hills, so seeing is quite good, a digitized fast Schmidt would do wonders here....

Thanks in advance for your help and advice, all the best and cheers,

Florian
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