where there’s smoke there’s fire

The Italian company PrimaLuceLab is specializing in astronomy and astrophotography. They just launched a cooled version of the D5500 DSLR camera and they call it simply “D5500a Cooled“. Here are the improvements for astrophotography over the base D5500 model:

• cooling system that cools down the sensor temperature up to -27°C in respect of ambient temperature and stabilize the working temperature to the desired value
• modified front filter that improve sensitivity especially in red part of the spectrum (similar to the one of Nikon D810a)
• anti dewing system that allows to avoid dewing problems when the cooling system starts
• integrated shutter control to perform sequence of long expositions without the need of an external controller
• power without the Nikon battery (in long exposure astrophotography usually DSLR camera runs out of battery, also because of cold conditions)

The price of the D5500a Cooled is €2,190 (around $2,400). For comparison, a D5500 body costs $896.95 in the US. Here is the product description (product code PLLD5500AC):

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