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a good rant all he same.
it would seem to me that if you listen to the mount manufacturers and re-sellers you cannot make a mount that works straight out of the box to the satisfaction of most imagers, not for a price that makes them affordable to the majority of imagers anyway.
maybe our expectations are to high, l don't know.
the majority of imagers on this forum l would guess use either the G11 at $5500 or the EQ6 at $2500 if using a GEM, why would the EQ6 perform to the standard of the G11 at over twice the price? it won't.
it would therefore stand to reason the G11 would not compare to the Paramount and so on, building a decent imaging platform is obviously a more expensive exercise that most of us think, IMO anything under the $5500 mark will bring ongoing heartache if serious long exposure photography is the goal.
l agree that realistic mount specifications from dealers would be a great idea, but l seriously think we are asking to much from the mass produced mounts that most of us can afford.
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