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Full frame dude. The PL16803 is a nice camera. The Apogee U16M was good too but the slow cooling time and weaker cooling was annoying. The FLI has a quieter shutter, faster downloads, even less noisy electronics and of course the strong cooling. On this camera about 51C below ambient. It will be a bit less than you are used to with yr 11002 as of course that chip is half the mass.
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Yes I think the ProLine16803 is going to be a great camera - I am reluctant to sing the praises of anything now before I actually use it ala the ASA
..of course I have used the ProLine platform already so I guess I have a good idea of just how good it
should be
. The 16803 chips in the ProLines are returning read noise levels of less than 6 electrons, pretty amazing huh?..Hope mine does too
I remember Wolfgang Promper felt he nearly didn't need dark frames! I was aware that the super cooling levels I get with the 11002 chip in the ProLine will be unobtainable with the bigger 16803 but any delta T greater than 50C will be acceptable then I should be able to run at -25C in summer and -35C in winter (two dark sets instead of the only one I use now
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Mike