From: Peter Tattersall <ptatters@zerobyzero.ca>

Date: October 2, 2009 11:14:29 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: NOS Pt Grey cameras on ebay

I saw those. The attraction of the Scorpion was the price and the sensor. Unfortunately I'm on a very limited budget now that I'm retired.

On 2009-10-02, at 1:02 PM, 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_Protection?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.

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