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I've got to say I'd like to see innovations over the general stuff that we all know and love...
with the range of 8, 11 and 16mp CCD's on the market, I dont see going to higher megapixels to be of that greater importance.. more so, smaller pixels with higher QE.
Personally I'd like to see an APS sized chip, somewhere around the 11mp mark, that would give something like 5.2um pixels... of course, this is great for scopes like mine, where the image circle demands a smaller APS sized sensor, however its focal length requires smaller pixels to achieve good resolution... I suppose, for me, anything with the KAF-8300 sensor would be fine...
I dont see anyone needing a 4" CCD... Even something twice the size of the APS sensors would be difficult to fully illuminate for majority of amateur scopes... things like the AP140 that have a 100mm corrected imaging circle might do the trick.. but how many of us own one of those..
I look forward to seeing what comes of the SBIG STX line of cameras that are coming soon. I've used self guiding for a while with previous cameras I've owned and I must say, a lot of people don't like it (most, dont like the idea of it, as they've not actually used it) I personally think its about as awesome as it gets.
As it says in my signature, Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. The new SBIG cameras, if they are as easy to use as the ST9 and ST10 that I've owned, should prove to be the ultimate in sophisticated imaging systems...
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