Since there are really only 5 million photo receptor sites it seems to
me that this has to sacrifice resolution for the sake of "better" color.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/5/2011 1:28 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> New sigma SD1 has an effective 15 megapixel 1.5x crop sensor (46
> million individual diodes, 15 million sites). Are there any reports
> on its performance yet? Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 05/02/2011, at 10:41 AM, WayneS wrote:
>
>> The Foveon technique, I bet, has sparked interest in the image
>> sensor research community, simply because it reduces the bayer
>> color mask loss. Foveon has yet to prove comparable performance
>> with CMOS sensor, hence Foveon has not become mainstream in
>> sensors. The efficiency of CMOS sensors (with bayer color mask) has
>> kept it ahead of the more bipolar based Foveon sensor.
>
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