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Originally Posted by Poita
Which comments? The ones about not buying a QHY8 or about the 8300 also being a good chip or something else? It has been a pretty busy thread and Chris only got back from a 9hr drive on Sunday night, so has been pretty flat out. I don't think you are being deliberately ignored, there just wasn't a lot to specifically reply to maybe, or he hasn't read and absorbed it all yet and is head-down bum up trying to come to grips with the camera.
I think Chris said he is looking at an 8300 as well in one of the posts, and he is only trying the QHY8 as I offered to loan him one.
The main point of the exercise is to see if it is worth spending his limited resources on stepping up to a dedicated cooled CCD camera of any description vs his DSLR, the QHY8 is a good way to try it and see. It will have similar performance to any other OSC cooled CCD, others may be a bit better or a bit worse, but the setup and use and results will be similar and help him decide whether to stick with the DSLR and spend money on something else, or purchase a cooled CCD of some description.
If going the CCD, the decision of *which* camera to buy will be a whole 'nother thread of agonising over choices I'm sure 
I think Chris' main issue at the moment is with processing files with a wide dynamic range, and the hoops that have to be learned and jumped through. Some help in that arena would be appreciated from anyone, it isn't my strong-suit. |
Well Peter. Chris was not theonly one who drove 9 hours to get home on Saturday. I also made a 9 hour trip home from my holidays but managed to find the time to make a post which is informative and explained a lot of the reasons to avoid a qhy8. The posts in case were or appeared to be just ignored.
These posts are based on some years of working with the QHY range of cameras and to at least acknowledge them would have been just common courtesy. I have made the effort to help as many people as possible get the best from this range of cameras over the years.
Looks like the time has come to become one of the invisible minority here and leave it to the experts.