03-03-2014, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Shiraz
Agree. short subs make a lot of sense with low read noise cameras - they do not make sense with high read noise chips though. Optimum sub length scales with the square of the read noise, so one of the older Kodak CCDs with 15 electrons read noise would require 9x the sub length of an icx694 with 5 electrons read noise. I guess that is where the idea that "long subs are always better" has come from - with past generations of chips that was true, but not with some of the current crop. Of course long subs are always better for NB. Here ends the sermon  .
regards Ray |
Ray, thanks for Sunday sermon,
BTW. Beautiful M104, well done. 
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