Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [M]: Meade 216-416 verses the MX5C


At this point I don't know that I'm sold on color or for that matter
any particular manufacturer. I'm just trying to make an informed

Cliff


>I would stay clear of the Color MX5C and go for the MX5 if your sold
>on
>the Starlight Express. SBIG has worked on a color version and found
>at
>this time it wasn't good enough to build. They were not impressed
>with
>the MX5C either and couldn't come up with anything better themselves.

>The MX5C is the best color imager but it can't hold a candle to
>mult-color filter exposures that the 216, 416 and the SBIG line of
>imagers. IHO..................ric

If I remember correctly the problems with the one shot color camera idea
were mainly due to the insensitivity of the chips available to do it. The
other factors involved were based on the fact that you are stuck with the
in built filters on the chips themselves.External filters,color wheels etc
etc need forty times the work with mono chrome cameras to get the
results,including the registration problems and getting the exposure times
correct and so on. I can understand why Sbig shyed off ,it is really just
another niche in the market awkward to fill at present and already filled by
another very competent manufacturer in the form of Mr T.P.

Brandon

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