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Gee Jase, Im over 2 minds on this new model. 1st impression was, cooled SBIG megapixels at a nice price and internal guide bypassing filters. Now thats a big bonus, guiding without filters, makes it a given, unlike the icky problem laden choice with mono SBIGs. But given Houghies cooled 350D (or the new 40D) at a quarter of the price, and that youd be interested in this SBIG cause of the megapixels and quick colour action, the end result margin is really closeing up even though the SBIG is a relatively good price (for an SBIG).
Unless you really dont want to get tricky, I would see any colour SBIG as a transition to getting serious, so even at this low SBIG type price, I would go a cooled or cutting edge DSLR and save the diff for an astro mono. That way, you could end up in the long term with both with less up front pain, and great pics straight up. Also of cause, by the time you went mono, new models would appear at a lower price.
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