Re: Meade Deep Sky Imager

From: Chuck (cscappaticci_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:27:55 -0600

I'm willing to be if Canon made their 6.3 Mpixel chip/electronics available
to someone like SAC, a peltier cooled USB2 camera based on that chip would
sell like crazy. The camera body sells for $800.00 The chip/electronics
can't cost much more than a few hundred dollars. 

-- 
Clear Skies,
     Chuck
"Richard" <rander3127@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:ec75e55a.0408161302.3e74f85b@posting.google.com...
> rmollise@aol.com (Rod Mollise) wrote in message
news:<20040815001121.19157.00003446@mb-m06.aol.com>...
> > >Sad to see the resolution of these astro cams still stinks compared to
lowly
> > >consumer cams.  Unless you spend about $5000 that is.
> > >-Rich
> >
> > Hi Rich:
> >
> > Resolution is _hardly_ the whole story.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Does this mean companies like SBIG will now be selling their 2 meg chip
> cams for the same price as one meg?

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