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Re: [OM] Foveon update

Subject: Re: [OM] Foveon update
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 17:28:43 +1100
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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