maybe so. But I think the original reason was to create a response to
Starlight Express on the low end. Their higher end USB cameras were probably
a response to FLI. It is my opinion that SBIG was sitting on their laurels
through a good part of 2001 and 2002 and finally had to respond to the
competition that was closing in from all sides.
it also probably had to do with the availability of reasonably large sensors
with high resolution that were cheap. The key concept is the semiconductor
technology is the enabler for both the consumer digicams and the lower cost
single shot color astrocams. The secondary thing is that the consumer
digicam market is a high volume user of multi-megapixel single-shot color
sensors, so that means the price drops as the volume increases. That makes
them potentially attractive for making low cost astrocams.
Unfortunately single shot color is not necessarily what is best suited for
astroimaging. But you can sure make them work for a lot of applications
quite nicely if the price is right.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Huber" <joe@huberfamily.org>
To: "'Richard Crisp'" <rdcrisp@earthlink.net>; "'The Astronomy Connection'"
<sf-bay-tac@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:13 AM
Subject: RE: [TAC] Canon's official Astrophotography 10D site
> Don't you think that the DSLR's is one of the reasons SBIG came out with
the
> ST-2000XM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sf-bay-tac-bounces@seds.org [mailto:sf-bay-tac-bounces@seds.org] On
> Behalf Of Richard Crisp
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:01 AM
> To: john gleason; The Astronomy Connection; jturley@SkyImageLab.com
> Subject: Re: [TAC] Canon's official Astrophotography 10D site
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john gleason" <dvj@earthlink.net>
> To: <jturley@SkyImageLab.com>; "The Astronomy Connection"
> <sf-bay-tac@seds.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [TAC] Canon's official Astrophotography 10D site
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> > Excellent and instructive web site. Canon is really working to expand
> > the
> use model of their digital cameras. This will do a lot to pull more
> mainstream folks into the astronomy hobby.
>
>
> not to mention ratching up a bit of pricing pressure on the traditional
> astro-cam vendors.
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Received on Thu Jul 29 11:24:33 2004