Re: from a lurker: Re: [APML] CCD on APML and a CCD image

[George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>]

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Thank you Gene and Jerry, very well said.

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

We now return you to your regular programming

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Gene Horr wrote:
> 
> CCD vs. film is not the issue, despite those on both
> sides who are trying to pull it that way.  The problem
> is signal to noise.
> 
> The "old" cars analogy is the best I've seen presented.
> This list is for film discussion.  That is its sole
> purpose.  Now, due to technological changes it is a
> widespread practice to scan the film image and then
> do processing electronically.  From the moment you
> start the scan you now dealing with a CCD image.  Hence
> many (all?) of the techniques used in processing "pure"
> CCD images are appropriate to the discussion of film
> astrophotography.
> 
> But the list is for discussion of film astrophotography.
> And as far as I know it is the only decent English language
> list devoted to film.
> 
> There are numerous high volume lists devoted to CCD
> imaging.  Only one for film.  People aren't trying
> to ban CCD for CCD's sake, they are trying to keep
> the list on topic.  I'm not sure where things stand
> now but in the past you could see many of the good
> posters on this list also on CCD-related lists.
> 
> I also run the generic CCD list and have spent years
> doing CCD imaging.  So I am hardly biased against
> CCDs.  But that is not the purpose of this particular
> list.
> 
> Gene Horr
> genehorr@houston.rr.com
> 
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