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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
Alternatively, you can mod your 1100D raymo...astro mod is pretty straightforward. I've been experimenting with a cold finger with mine and it's inexpensive and effective.
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I'm coming to the same conclusion myself. The modern DSLR has low noise and big sensors. The 1200D I picked up recently new for $500 is 18 megapixels and BYE makes it easy to manage and setup. I will eventually cold finger it but I think just keeping it down to the 5* point rather than trying to freeze it will work extremely well. A stable temp is probably more important than a particularly low temp, it's easy to compensate for the known factors with darks.
1200D is a nice lightweight unit as well. No plans to IR mod it yet but I'll get there one day. In the meantime the 450D is my experimental camera and does a dang good job as well.