Foveon X3 FULL-COLOR IMAGE SENSOR, Biggest breakthrough in 30 years of CCD imaging.

[Richard Cranium]

TechTV
First Look: Foveon X3 Technology

Sing happy trails to 35 mm film as new technology provides affordable film-quality digital cameras.

By Andrew Hawn & Brett Larson
February 22, 2002

Although Foveon's F7 image sensor is only rated as a 3.53-megapixel camera, it captures images that are comparable to 7-megapixel equivalents in regular digital cameras.
http://www.techtv.com/products/digit...373408,00.html

VPS technology allows a Foveon X3 enabled digital camera to capture high-resolution still photographs and full-motion video that offers photo quality superior to 35 mm film

Each Foveon X3 pixel consists of three photo detectors located at different depths within the sensor to detect the absorption of the red, green and blue light that has penetrated the silicon. Foveon is the first and only company to use silicon color separation for designing color image sensors for digital cameras.

Less Complex, Lower Cost.
Foveon X3 image sensors will streamline the electronic designs of digital cameras. Today's digital cameras use mosaic color filters and require complex mathematical algorithms to estimate the red, green and blue value of pixel, since only one color per pixel is being truly measured. To accomplish this interpolation, dedicated processing hardware and software are required inside the camera. Color interpolation adds cost and complexity to a camera while increasing delays between clicking the shutter button and capturing a picture, which can result in the difference between capturing a great picture or missing an important moment. By capturing all three colors at every pixel, Foveon X3-based image sensors eliminate the need for costly, complex and error-prone color interpolation.
http://www.foveon.com/press_X3_business.html

2002 DIMA Innovative Digital Product Awards
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PMA 2002: DIMA, the Digital Imaging Marketing Association have announced the winners of the 2002 Innovative Digital Product Awards announced.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02...innovative.asp

Bill Gates
" Foveon shares our passion for pushing the envelope and Foveon's new approach to image capture and rendering demonstrates this. Foveon's X3 sensor technology promises to take digital imaging to the next level where even higher quality images and new capabilities well beyond what's possible with today's film and digital camera technology, all at lower cost to users."
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02...nmicrosoft.asp

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http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=foveon+x3&hc=0&hs=0

[bill1971]

Richard:
Good to "see" you. I just asked about you at Sysopt. It just didn't seem right not to have you post all those bargains. ( I'm a real
bargain hound myself).
I remember you saying several months ago that you were busy
building PCs, as business had picked up. Has that continued?

Thanks for the TechTV link, and the info that you provided. Seems
to be a real break-through in CCD technology.

- Bill

[FreakyOCR]

I can't wait...

[Richard Cranium]

Hi Bill, long time. Glad ya made it this way.
Yeah, the orders keep pouring in, if this keeps up I'm gonna have to hire a helper ''

Re The Foveon; The CCD technology is getting better and better.
I was totally happy with the resolution on my Fuji MX-2900 or the Kodak DX3900 but this just boggles the mind.

NOW we are getting to the point were the OPTICS are gonna be the limiting factor, or bottleneck as us Geeks would say. ''

Since "good" digital cameras have gotten affordable for a average working joe, my "fix" to burn film is not as costly as before ''