Digital BW, The Print

But that's not what it does!

A lot of people seem to be confusing colour resolution with picture 
resolution.

It's a characteristic of human vision that our colour vision is lower 
resolution than our black and white resolution. 

This is why you can still get natural-looking results by drastically pruning 
the colour information present in a picture.

The Foveon chip adds better colour and reduces moire, but it doesn't increase 
the base resolution of the picture.

As for Canon or Nikon paying Sigma, why should they do that when it's Foveon 
that owns the technology?

On Sunday 17 Mar 2002 9:51 pm, Jerry Olson wrote:

> If this chip can triple the resolution of any current 6 megapixel chips at
> half the price, I think a lot of people will be jumping on Sigma's
> bandwagon. And Canon and Nikon will probably pay Sigma through the nose for
> licenses.