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Old 21-10-2012, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward View Post
Red make nice camera, but I am unaware of any mono chip models. The lack of a Bayer matrix with mono sensors effectively triples ( thereabouts) their resolution when compared to colour sensors used in Red or any other cameras, particularly when used with extremely monochromatic sources such as h-alpha, hence I'm not sure there I'd notice any improvement over a 2.7k mono camera I'm currently running.
For a crazy amount of money, Red do have a mono sensor, recently released. They say it's 15-20% higher res than the colour sensor.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/08/r...n-sale-octobe/
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