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Re: [Digital BW] Foveon sensor.. ?????

2013-11-28 by David Kachel

Ok so to get to it ...why is this set up in the closet..I just don't get why
this technology has not been embraced. I am really trying to dig into this a
bit so I figure their must be some experience on this group with it.. I did
a post on the IR group and got no responces at all. It was as if they never
heard of it.  Are any of you familiar or experienced with it?


The biggest reason is lousy marketing:

1. Price started out waaaaaay too high because they got greedy. Instead of
competing with better technology at a similar price, they chose to compete
with better technology at an absurd price.
2. Their Marketing department decided to call a 5 megapixel sensor a 15
megapixel sensor (they summed the 5 megapixels of each of the three layers).
People took offense at this ploy and refused to buy.
What they are doing now, I don't know. And I don't much care. They are like
Beta Max. They WILL be left behind in the dust and I don't plan on getting
stuck once again with a pile of useless lenses that don't mount on anything
else. (Bitter Sony a900 owner.)


David Kachel

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