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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Alex, you got that seriously wrong. Precision engineering is THE difference.
Ive owned an LX90, G11 and PME. Huge difference between them all.
Fred
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Used to have a 12.5" F6 mounted on a home made EQ mount. Consisted of 20mm welded steel plates , a couple of self aligning 75mm dia. plumber block bearings in RA. 50mm shaft for DEC. running in self lube bronze bushes with hand control slow motion. Ra was driven by a ala Texerau ribbon sector drive. After 1.5 hours I had to rewind. Deep space photography with exacta slr body, knife edge focuser, electronic control 2 buttons for RA made by a PM linesman. Offaxis guiding with spiderweb eyepiece. Star images after 45 minutes exposure on negative were pinpoints. Developed and printed on 10"x8" kodak paper and star images still pin points.
No stacking, no Photoshop etc. just the original raw image.
The Point I am trying to make is "WHERE IS THE PRECISSION"