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Subject: Re: Meade CCD shipping?
From: Piet Hans Bruinsma
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Fri Jan 27 01:02:51 1995

>I believe Matt's question is reasonable and is still unanswered.
>Does anyone *else* have one? May I say that you are not exactly
>a run-of-the-mill CCD user and Meade could conceivably have made a
>special effort in your case. Shipping one unit to you does not
>demonstrate full production.
>
>I am in the market for my first CCD and I too would like to hear from
>other more "average" users who have actually received and used the unit.
>
>
>> On Sun, 22 Jan 1995, matt longmire wrote:
>>
>> > ...we don't even know if anybody except for Steven
>> > Williams has seen one of these. Without getting everybody's dander up how
>> > do these things work? Are they vapor ware?
>
>> On Mon, 23 Jan 1995, Steven Williams wrote:
>>
>> First of all, the Pictor's are not vapour ware. I have one. It works
>> terrific. If they are vapour ware, then there is are a lot of ghost files
>> taking up a lot of space on my hard drive :-)
>> ...
>> Steven.
>
>
I received my PICTOR 416 last week and am testing it right now. Works perfect!!!! auto-exposure, auto-focus, mosaic, the lot!. Unbelievable that using such an advanced intsrument can be so simple.

The only thing I need is a SCSI interface so I can download the whole high-res image in about a second.

Because of bad weather I have not been able to test it on the sky.