Hello Ron,
I like both beasts
its just that I whish I had a scope to grap and enjoy without all the other arrangements involved in eq set up and the 6" has become too small though you are absolutely right about the comparison between pictures and views. I ve looked through a few very large f4 dobs (I think the biggest was about half a metre) but they were self made or custom build by a pro.
the 16" lightbridge is the max amount of money I would spend on a dob and only because its 16". but if the mechanical quality of the truss design ends up being a shaky construction that shifts focus while watching and cant hold collimation during the viewing session than I d rather go for a 12" non-truss with a lighter mirror in a proably similar cell design.
I am happy to get my coll. laser out every now and then as I do for my (very stable) 6" newton
have you or anybode else been able to compare the rigidity of a 12" GSO dob and 16" Meade(GSO) dob?