Cookbook 245 Camera

Just wonder if anyone remembers Richard Berry and the Cookbook245 camera. Literally the great grandfather of our digital astrophotography hobby. If not, here’s a starter page I found. http://wvi.com/~rberry/cookbook/cookbook.htm  I was at Astrofest in Illinois when Richard first demonstrated the camera back in the mid 90’s. What a concept, you could use a digital chip to capture objects in the night sky with. Unheard of. We where still using regular film or hypersensitive film back then to capture images. Which by the way was a very long and involving a process called "hypersensitization". Which would lower the reciprocity failure of the film giving you longer exposures. It means unwinding the film in the dark and immersing it in a silver nitrate solution just before the exposure (one could use instead forming gas, needing a specific equipment called a hypersensitization chamber, which required a certain pressure and very accurate temperature control to get it right), and you better not mess it up or you lost the whole roll not to mention the fact that you needed to use it as soon as possible or freeze it to help it last. I was just looking over the work here that can be done today with the equipment we have available and was remembering back to the days when digital photography got started. If you’re not familiar or just wish to reminisce check out the web page and the images that was being done back then. Or just look up Richard Berry’s Cookbook 245 camera.