Re: [APML] Digital SRL and OT

[Chuck Vaughn <aa6g@aa6g.org>]

Massimo,

We've been down this road before and the consensus has always been to  
leave the mandate unchanged. There's already quite a few CCD and DSLR  
groups so changing this one probably wouldn't mean much.

APML will eventually die or dwindle to just a handful of members. How  
many members are there here now? 500? I just joined digital_astro, a  
DSLR group and it has 9610 members with more signing up everyday.  
That alone tells you where the hobby is going. The SBIG group only  
has 4640 members. We should be able to look forward to many good  
things to come for DSLR astrophotography.

Chuck

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> Sirs,
> I used film for astrophotography in last twenty years and I did  
> look at this
> group for many years too. I notice that the film pictures posted  
> are now
> really rare if compared with the ones on other mailing lists. The  
> future,
> the life of astrophotography is now in digital media and, if also  
> we can't
> overlap on other specialized groups like the SBIG one, I think it  
> would be
> better to open to the media that are the right heiress of the film,  
> like the
> new SRL cameras generation. I'm going on with film but here, in  
> Italy, TP
> disappeared and color slide are discontinued in stores. I don't  
> want to feel
> myself like the last japanese soldier on the remote island.
> War is over.
>
> Massimo
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