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At the end of the day. CCD brand, and chip (both model and individual unit) make little difference. Its more about experience both in capture, calibration and processing. Good mount and optics always play a big part too...
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I agree that is basically true. The differences between high end gear definitely get narrower and narrower. Like APO refractors. The last little bit of improvement comes at great cost. However when you are paying big dollars the little differences become bigger issues for deciding and they do tend to be little differences. You would be hard pressed to notice anything different between the same imager using an Apogee U8300, a FLI ML8300, A QSI583, a QHY9 all using the Kodak 8300 chip on the same scope and same exposure times.
Some cameras make the job a little easier though. I know imaging last weekend at -40C didn't require darks or flats really. The more noise the more you rely on accurate callibration and if that is even a bit off you have to use Photoshop etc. to try to fix the image whihc can be difficult.
There is tremendous choice now than there was when I started about 4 years ago. Now we have FLI, Apogee, QSI, Starlight Express, QHY and Sbig. The Yankee Robotics Trifid cameras seemed to drop out of the game for some reason.
Greg.
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