unfortunately it is a fairly permanent modification. you are physically removing one of the filters in front of the CMOS sensor so there is no way of turning it off and on again (electronically). The camera still works but it now picks up more of the red spectrum than what is visible to your naked eye so some objects look unnatural. you may be able to buy a filter to snap onto the lens of the camera to correct for this but i have not looked into it. I made the modification because i wanted to use the camera mainly for astro work and my phone camera was sufficient for other shots (i am not a landscape photographer). the results are fantastic (the one night i took shots before the perpetual clouds rolled in) but it is definitely something that needs to be considered carefully.
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Originally Posted by StarCravingMad
Hi there,
New to the forum, and also new to being interested in Astronomy/Astrophotography. Getting my scope setup in a month or two and I also have a Canon 600D.
A question I had about modding the camera, is how will the mod affect the camera when I wanna use it for things other than astrophotography? Are you able to switch it on and off?
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