The replacement sensor for the 450D has arrived. It is obviously brand new with no marks on it at all. Now I have to make a decision: do I cut my loses and just go for the full spectrum mod (removing LP1 and LP2 filters), replace the highly reflective stock cover glass with the MC Clear sensor cover glass and seal it with Argon in that chamber - thus create a dry chamber Version II of my cold finger 450D; or do I try again to debayer the sensor (myself this time) along with the filter and coverglass changes.
I need to re-read all the pros and cons of physical Debayering and work out if the improvement in resolution is worth giving up the microlenses (which have to be scratched off to get to the Bayer Matrix). I will go back and look over my initial mono test images as well (before it was too far gone). Stay tuned.
