Paolo R. Lazzarotti wrote:
<em class="quotelev1">> Hi all,
<em class="quotelev1">>
<em class="quotelev1">> My name is Paolo Lazzarotti and I head Astromeccanica company.
<em class="quotelev1">> I was told by Peter Katreniak some confusion was here with ES640 CCD
<em class="quotelev1">> camera and my intention is to make situation clear to everybody.
<em class="quotelev1">>
<em class="quotelev1">> At beginning Astromeccanica and Astronomica agreed with ES640 project:
<em class="quotelev1">> they were producing cameras and we were providing with selling. We had
<em class="quotelev1">> assurance from them about copyrights and other permissions granted, so
<em class="quotelev1">> we went on with distributing.
<em class="quotelev1">> But after a couple of months Astronomica suddenly decided to abort his
<em class="quotelev1">> collaboration with us for unexplicable problems; I suppose, with a lot
<em class="quotelev1">> of sadness, they were using our best known company as spring board to
<em class="quotelev1">> let their name well shown up in the market!
<em class="quotelev1">> Now I know also Carsten Arnholm was exploited with his work and Steve
<em class="quotelev1">> Chambers had no answer from them so far, my supposition is moving to a
<em class="quotelev1">> certainty.
<em class="quotelev1">>
<em class="quotelev1">> Since a short time we started to make this camera entirely by ourself
<em class="quotelev1">> and we just spent a lot of time with sensor's datasheet studying and
<em class="quotelev1">> K3CCDTools interfacing in order to avoid a stop to the production.
<em class="quotelev1">> This project is close to the Chamber's one BUT IT IS NOT THE SAME:
<em class="quotelev1">> over all the world there's only ICX098 CCD sensor series capable of
<em class="quotelev1">> these features and these devices can been drived in a one way only:
<em class="quotelev1">> the same well explained for the first time by Steve Chambers!
<em class="quotelev1">> Internal components, electronic boards and other things included with
<em class="quotelev1">> ES640 are totally different from Steve's original project and
<em class="quotelev1">> electronic parts are holded in a aluminum case very hard to reproduce!
<em class="quotelev1">> Moreover, thanks to the Peter's help, we're going to introduce a
<em class="quotelev1">> semi-professional CCD camera with b/w CCD sensor and RGB filter wheel
<em class="quotelev1">> built-in we'll be better standing out our production through.
<em class="quotelev1">>
<em class="quotelev1">> But if Steve should not yet agree with our device distributing, I'm
<em class="quotelev1">> ready to better explain ES640 functioning in depth and talk further
<em class="quotelev1">> with him about eventual agreement I was thinking to be already with
<em class="quotelev1">> Astronomica and I discovered not be so, indeed.
<em class="quotelev1">> I'm very proud to say Astromeccanica *NEVER* took advantage of
<em class="quotelev1">> somebody's work without permission or other agreement and here there
<em class="quotelev1">> are members who can confirm it!
<em class="quotelev1">>
<em class="quotelev1">> Hope this clears, my best regards to each of you!
Hi all,
I was not planning to bring up the following issue here, but since my name
is mentioned and a declaration is made in public that Astromeccanica never
took advantage of somebodys work without permission, I will make a single
comment about it.
The page http://www.astromeccanica.it/ccd_camera.htm lists a deep sky
processing tutorial as part of a "Standard Equipment". The page is last
modified 04/02/2003 (I take that to mean 2nd of April 2003 as other pages of
yours uses the format 03/25/2003). The page also links directly to my site,
using my name in the link.
It is clear that Astromeccanica was originally authorized to use this
information, but on March 8, 2003 Paolo Lazzarotti agreed explicitely (in an
email to me) to the following requirement I put forward: "You will stop
using my K3CCDTutorial. You will declare to me it will no longer be used and
that you will delete all copies you have and not distribute it on CD or in
any other way to your customers."
The above may possibly have no direct relevance to the ES640 camera itself.
I have no plans to follow up on this thread here. Astronomy is more fun.
Clear skies
Carsten A. Arnholm
http://home.online.no/~arnholm/astro/astro.htm
N59.776 E10.457
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