These may well be unfair comparisons, but that is what happens when someone offers a camera/chip combo of a larger size for a substantially reduced price point off other vendors. I have been waiting for the floor to fall out from under the (to my thinking) artificially inflated prices of the better astro-cameras. And maybe this is the first plank.
Richard
p.s. Waiting for the mono version bundled with that spiffy filter wheel like the latest Orion SSDSI
-------------------- 11” Celestron XLT SCT
Orion ED80 APO
CG-5 GEM
JMI NGF-CM Focuser
Orion SSDSI
Meade DSI Pro
an assortment of 1.25” & 2" stuff
all tucked inside the Blue Moon Observatory
http://tinyurl.com/29b9wn Basically more scope than my abilities warrant
"I know I can never look upon the stars without wondering why the whole world does not become astronomers."
Thomas Wright