From: "doobisary" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: October 5, 2009 4:14:15 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: NOS Pt Grey cameras on ebay

Mark:

After I bought my camera from the seller, I checked his feedback and prior ads.  He's been periodically posting ads for these for quite some time now.  I wouldn't be surprised if he either has a "stash" that he digs into periodically, or he buys NOS cameras and other electronics components in bulk from time to time.

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@...> wrote:

I`m finding these PGR cameras are the annoying (but tantalysing)  

extra thing you want to buy after already overstretching yourself!  

You find yourself asking "could any of these other purchases made,  

have been postponed" if I`d known the cameras were going to be  

available..!! I just hope I can find as good a deal in 2-3 months time..

Mark.

On 06/10/2009, at 4:48 AM, doobisary wrote:

For those still interested in these, the seller has more on ebay  

(but he raised the prices somewhat from what he had them listed for  

last week). There are also a couple of flea cameras, both color and  

monochrome.

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@>  

wrote:

I see I could possibly get a B/W version of my present camera but

it`s probably too much a stretch of resources. I might have tried

though for the 1600 pixel job! Have added Leotyman to my favourite

sellers though.

Mark.

On 03/10/2009, at 3:02 AM, doobisary wrote:

I may have misspoke...

I checked "watch this item" for both cameras, and they show up as

"view relisted item", but not in seller's "items for sale".

They might have been snatched up too quickly for "my ebay" to get

caught up.

Sorry if I was in error.

There are still two other Pt Grey listings by other sellers:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Point-Grey-Dragonfly2-DR2-BW-Camera-DR2-BW-

CSBOX-

NEW_W0QQitemZ370261973096QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?

hash=item5635555868&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 (showing "9 available")

and:

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Point-Grey-Research-Flea-CCD-Camera-640-

x-480-

pixel_W0QQitemZ280375377823QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBI_Security_Fire_Protect

ion?hash=item4147acbf9f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 (showing "3  

available"

- yesterday there were 5)

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@>

wrote:

Where`s this new listing if I could possibly wangle it!

Mark.

On 02/10/2009, at 2:43 AM, doobisary wrote:

Hi all:

This week, I purchased a new old stock Pt Grey Scorpion  

1600x1200

monochrome camera on ebay for under $300, including CA sales

tax. I

ordered it "buy it now" on Monday afternoon, and it showed  

up in

the mail yesterday! Exactly as described in the ad, all the  

Point

Grey seals in place. QA inspection stickers and packing  

date from

Pt Grey from July, 2007.

I already had an extra cmount to 1.25" adapter I wasn't using,

so I

put that on the camera, found a 6' firewire cable I also had

laying

around (will need to add another 5 meter cable, though) and

took it

out and tried it out on my 6" f/10 Newt with a 2.5x  

Televue. Boy,

that's a cool camera! In full frame mode, it's even easier to

center objects than it is with my flea2 (1032x776). I was  

shooting

without any filters, just the IR blocker in the camera, so

atmospheric refraction was an issue (smear). It's quite a  

bit more

sensitive than my color flea2 (perhaps not surprisingly). I  

can

shoot with a 640x480 ROI at 16.67ms/frame, 60 fps, and  

still have

enough light through the 6" for decent signal. The seeing was

awful, and yet I got a decent image out of a couple of  

videos I

tried before calling it quits for the evening.

If others are interested, this is a great deal, and the  

seller (an

electronic components retailer) has one more 1600x1200 and two

1360x1024 Scorpions for sale. All NOS, unopened, but without

cables

or Flycapture software or firewire card (which I haven't  

used from

my flea and flea2 purchases, since I'm using Astro IIDC).

Here's the link to one of the ads: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/

eBayISAPI.dll? 

ViewItem&item=300350362241&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I'll post one of the Jupiters I shot last night with the  

camera...

-Tim.