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With the sensor thread heating up recently I have been doing some dirty calculations and from what I can tell the KAF-16803 is probably one of the cleanest on the market at the moment (haven't compared it against anything without ABG but they should be even cleaner). Although the PL16803 has a read noise of 10e- and comparing it against the MLx814 which has a read noise of 2e-, you may at first consider the MLx814 to be far cleaner but in reality it isn't. This is where well depth becomes important as well, the 16803 has 100,000e- depth while the 814 has ~ 15,000e-, with a gain of 1.53e-/ADU and 0.23e-/ADU.
Ray can correct me if I am wrong here but that would ultimately make the 16803 ~ 33% cleaner? It may have a much higher read noise but the gain offsets it. That is my understanding of it anyway. This is meant irrespective of focal length, just in generalisation.
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