Hi guys! Sometimes, a ST-8 is attached to a photo-lens here at Brno observatory. Focusing is done by hand and is quite difficult because ST-8 readout times are long and you have to go a long way from the telescope to the computer. Although focus can be reached, achromatic and apochromatic lenses are corrected for colour aberration only at visible wavelengths. Thus, unfiltered CCD will show stars as big blots and redder stars being blots more than the blue ones. This could be quite annoying. Enhanced SBIG chips might give better results. Despite all this, photo-lens CCD photometry can give very good results - guys from Johan Palisa observatory are succesful contributors to VSNET with ST-7 and small photo-lens. Merry Christmas and happy New Year to everyone! Ondrej Pejcha