Re: [APML] hangin' around, was Stunned silence - Goodbye

["Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

I have been off the list since mid last week and have missed this thread.
What's the deal?  I saw reference to a digital camera.  I hope my digicam
images didn't start a CCD/film war.... :-o
Please reply off-list if you'd like.
Thanks.

Chris


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Chris Cook
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gartland <mgartlan@iconn.net>
To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] hangin' around, was Stunned silence


>Gee...I just rejoined after a lengthy hiatus and was planning on getting
into some
>CCD discussions....I missed the beginning of this thread or last years
>problem...is there something I should know before I start posting about
which  CCD
>camera...etc
>
>Paul Howell wrote:
>
>> Hi Bert -
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. I hope I didn't sound whiney.
>>
>> > You don't need to leave---what you are hearing is only the residue of
an
>> > argument from a year or two ago. There doesn't seem to be nearly the
insular
>> > film-only feeling that we had before.
>>
>> Great! I'd love to participate in the group, it seems to have some of the
>> best astrophotographers.
>>
>> > Some long-time film users (and very
>> > expert ones at that) seemed to feel that since there were CCD groups in
>> > which film wasn't mentioned (the SBIG group, I guess), there should
damn
>> > well be a film group in which CCD wasn't mentioned.
>>
>> I haven't followed the SBIG group closely, perhaps I should. I'm not
trying
>> to sound wry, but I assumed that the SBIG group was mostly about hardware
>> and the APML was mostly about pictures.
>>
>> >The people who got
>> > flamed then for "defending" CCD on APML are very cautious now. On the
other
>> > hand, people who did the flaming then have not made any recent
objections
>> > (as far as I know) to the rather significant comparisons of CCD and
film
>> > techniques and images on APML.
>> I find it astounding that someone would get flamed - maybe I'm just a
little
>> dense but what is there to defend or attack? Do people get flamed over
what
>> choice of film they make? Good grief, it's just a light sensor. Anyway,
I'm
>> glad that stuff is gone now and I don't want to make a big issue over it
>> (maybe too late already <G>).
>> >
>> <snip>
>> >It would be nice to have a site where both could be discussed.
>> Amen.
>>
>> -P
>>
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