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Old 12-12-2010, 12:42 AM
Stevec35 (Steve)
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Originally Posted by jenchris View Post
What would you bin the thing for? Shrinking it to fit to a website limit or something?
Basically the main benefit of binning is to increase the signal to noise ratio and hence the exposure length necessary because if you bin 2x2, for example, you are compressing 4 pixels into one. Of course this reduces the resolution but this generally doesn't matter because you usually only use binning when taking RGB images. The resolution in a LRGB image is in the luminance which is usually always 1x1.

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Steve
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