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Old 11-01-2014, 06:20 PM
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The well depth of the KAF8300 itself isn't an issue (when you bin 2x2 you effectively get 4 times the well depth) but Kodak in their wisdom made the horizontal shift register too shallow to cope with the full binned well depth when reading out the data. This causes horizontal blooming on bright stars. The blooming can be reduced or eliminated by reducing gain (I think the QSI cameras do this automatically) but that comes at a cost in dynamic range.

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