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Re: [OM] some news from the Photokina/Foveon?

Subject: Re: [OM] some news from the Photokina/Foveon?
From: HI100@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:40:07 EDT
Marc,
         did you by any chance get to look at the Foveon digital camera? 
Foveon apparently  has a stand of their own there. It should interesting to 
see the 2.5m high Foveon print at the stand.  The approximately 2.4Meg linear 
(fullRGB) pixel resolution claimed for their latest sensor thus corresponds 
to about a 1mm pixel size for the 2.5m enlargement. Some of their press 
releases imply the sensor can resolve higher resolution for fine detail. It 
may be they have a higher pixel count and do some local processing on the 
chips to reduce moire /aliasing noise before saving the data at a lower 
resolution.  This would fit into the previous work of Carver Mead (Foveon's 
founder) into analogs of neuronal networks for retinal and audio signal 
processing. 
          Hassellblad also has just announced they will use the Foveon 
prism/sensor assembly with a new camera of their own.  Did they show 
prototypes by any chance?   Interestingly the Hasselblad camera aparently 
will accept some Cannon lenses with an adapter! This is probably just because 
the Foveon system currently supports these lenses.
         Let us know what the results look like if you get a chance to view 
any prints.

         Tim Hughes
        >>Hi100@xxxxxxx<<

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