As you know Ray I have a simple take on binning, I let my sky conditions decide for me
If I am lucky enough to be in one of the few locations with .5"/px seeing then thats what I image at but if my location has seeing that's 1-2"/px then likewise thats what I will image at. The difference between our way of thinking I believe is us being a "business" This means we have a duty to deliver a certain standard of quality now whilst delivering the correct amount of Data ordered.
If customer XXXX requests for example Pier-12 at 1x1 (0.65"/px) for 5 hours Luminance, the customer has also agreed that they are happy to take the risk at 1x1 etc etc
* Customer pays £xxx to us
* We deliver 5 hours of data
* Out of 5 hours only 1 hour is of a good enough standard to use because it was 1x1
In my experience of customers over the years, is that in a lot of cases even if you explain, warn and even get them to agree that its at there own risk! When push comes to shove in the end you still end up with an unhappy customer who purchased £xxx in data and only received £xx I would rather not have that situation present itself to be fair.
I understand that I am using broad strokes for every customer in my reasoning and not everybody is the same but it is our job as the "supplier" to deliver a certain standard so we don’t get hassle for not delivering good data.
Also from my point of view, people will see the data we supply across the world and if customer XXXX posts an oversampled horrid image people will automatically say......
"have you seen how bad the data is that Roboscopes supply" It will never get mentionedon forums that the customer was informed it would not work well etc etc
However, whilst I would prefer to stay as we are if we got to know a customer well enough and we understood that there would be no comeback if the data supplied was not brilliant. I could be persuaded to bend the rules from time to time
I really hope that helps explain binning LOL