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<div class="PlainText">Hi Mark<br>
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I saw a notice about the Canon sensor on a web site dates earlier this year. No word if it being in a camera yet - just developed as a sensor.<br>
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cheers,<br>
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- David<br>
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From: "Mark Kaye" <mark.kaye@sympatico.ca><br>
Sent: November 30, 2013 5:32 AM<br>
To: astronomers@hamiltonrasc.ca<br>
Subject: Re: RASC Hamilton Pentax Astro Tracer<br>
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<div><font size="3">At 22:06 11/29/2013, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="x_cite">pixels. The EOS 7D comes in at 6.5 microns (Canon has developed a new full frame sensor with 17 micron pixels).
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My Canon 7D has 4.3u square pixels. The new 6D has larger pixels that weigh in at 6.55u. That gives it the ability to have a much higher effective ISO range. It is apparently quite low noise even when working at ISO102400. I have also heard that it takes
one dark frame for multiple light frames. Since the best way to do dark subtraction is to have the camera do it, this is a boon to astro imagers as wasting scope time doing darks is a reason why a lot of imagers do their own dark subtraction.<br>
What camera has 17u pixels?<br>
<p> Clear skies!<br>
MK<br>
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The Observatory by the Lake<br>
<a href="http://www3.sympatico.ca/mark.kaye/index.htm">http://www3.sympatico.ca/mark.kaye/index.htm</a>
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