Michael Terrence Binns, 51, downloaded the images between May 17, 2007, and November 15, 2008.

Sentencing him at the Supreme Court in Launceston today, Chief Justice Ewan Crawford referred to his conviction in 1999 on three sexual assault and indecent assault convictions relating to the abuse of two 11-year-old girls.

``The present offences demonstrate that his sexual proclivity for young girls remains and that a sentence of personal deterrence is required,'' Justice Crawford said.

Justice Crawford said while 394 of the images were classed at the lowest end of the scale for child exploitation material, most were still very sexually explicit.

The photographs featured about 300 girls aged between three and 15.

``The girls in the images are to be regarded as victims of the accused and his kind,'' he said.

Binns will serve three months' imprisonment for using a carriage service for child pornography material and a further six months for possessing child exploitation material.

His name will be placed on the child sex offender registry for five years.