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Tony,
its good to have you back into film again, you are a master of the chemical
technology bar none. I agree with many of your points on the time spent on
obtaining decent CCD images, all for a image size that is painfully small. Thats
why I built an observatory just for the schmidt camera - to take high resolution
wide field film images and have huge file sizes for sharp enlargements.
Welcome back!
Chris
Schur
Hello,
As some of you might have
guessed from my message to Bobby, I have parted with CCD completely. What at
first seemed like an amazing medium turned out to be something quite a bit
different... my greatest disappointment has been with the "noise" issues...
it's not enough to take good RGB exposures... after that comes a lot of
dark frame exposures and flat fields... to get an image like Rob Gendler's one
must go to unbelievable lengths. I also don't have the steadiness of seeing
that a CCD necessitates, but I do have dark skies. So I am returning to film,
only this time I am going to concentrate on slide films... I think they are
sharper than negative films.
Philip posted a very good summation of CCD vs.
film quite a few months ago... I would like to add that although CCD is
in essence a tricolor process, the noise issues make it a different
experience. Not much else to say about this... I wish I knew back then what I
know now...
Have a good one,
Tony
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