Advice please - camera question

[steviemac500]

Posted this in another area but this may be a better place for it.

Hi all, I have a Moravian G2-8300 which I love. When I bought it, I got it with the internal FW which only holds 5 filters. I am becoming increasingly frustrated by having to change the filters out when I do NB (retaking flats) etc. Ideally I would like a bigger FW to hold all the filters but after speaking to Moravian, it is not possible to backwards engineer the camera to do this. I am tempted to buy a  OSC (ZWO ASI294 PRo) to do away with RGB filters altogether and keep the Moravian solely for NB. This seems like an expensive option though? Another option could be to sell the Moravian and buy another camera with external FW to hold all the filters but I'm not sure what I would buy to compare to the G2-8300. I'm also concerned about losing quality with a OSC. My wife has said just buy the other camera but I was hoping for some advice before I take the plunge or if anyone has a better solution? Thanks in advance,

Steve

[drjolo]

You may consider to buy RGB camera with similar chip size (like QHY163C or ASI1600) to collect RGB color only. Then you can use 8300 to narrowband and luminance. During processing you can compose final LRGB image with 8300 camera luminance and OSC camera RGB color. I know some astroimagers do it this way. 

[steviemac500]

Hi thanks for the reply. What I'm really trying to do though is avoid spending another £1000!

[ollypenrice]

In the past I used OSC and mono, combining the results. It does work. 

I guess the cheapest option is to put up with the filter changing. 

When I'm going to add Ha and OIII to RGB I don't always shoot luminance, so one FW option would be R G B Ha OIII. Treat the L as non-vital?

Olly

PS It's a shame that nobody seems to offer the kind of quick-change filterwheels such as the old True Technology one.