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Hi Folks,
I don't want to seem like
I am crossing the line in the sand, but I need some opinions from APML users of
CCD cameras... I am almost through Ron Wodowski's nice book on CCD imaging, and
he spends some time discussing ABG vs NABG cameras... why this ties into the
APML is because Ron is of the opinion that for shooting really deep, clean,
artistic (there's that word again) images with a CCD camera, the ABG camera is
the way to go. This assumes that one has a good mount and dark skies... allowing
long exposures with great and faint detail in them. He states that one can
emulate the ABG camera with a NABG camera by making numerous shorter exposures,
but nothing really compares to taking several really long exposures with an ABG
camera under dark skies and combining those images.
Up until now I assumed
that ABG cameras were to be avoided... but he makes it seem that given the right
circumstances, they are more fun to work with and can produce ultimately deeper
images, not to mention being able to image in the proximity of bright stars. My
main interest is having fun and creating hopefully artistic images, not
doing science... so I would appreciate what other people would have to say on
this topic. If you don't want to post on the APML (might be too off topic...)
you can email me personally at tonyhallas@foothill.net
... for those of us who want to cross over to CCD for the purpose of making
better images, this bears looking into.
Thanks,
Tony
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