I agree Ray and that matches my experience. If you want to shoot galaxies then the smaller sensored Sony cameras are very good.
Your 14.5 would do best with a reducer in that configuration.
With the 16803 you can crop or you can use subframing when taking the images to get smaller file sizes to speed up processing.
These Sony sensors have made more affordable scopes capable of deeper imaging than the exKodak ones.
You end up taking shorter exposures with the Sony's (although I take 10mins at 305 F3.8 usually without any issue of overexposure) but the file sizes are small and the processing simple (usually no darks,flats or bias just data rejection and combine - very fast). The Kodak's require darks, flats biases to clean them up and generally larger files so its slower processing.
Greg.
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