Digital BW, The Print

Of course the numbers returned from the sensor will probably need some kind 
of spectral tuning before they would make sense so a raw format would still 
apply.

On Wednesday 20 Mar 2002 4:53 pm, Austin Franklin wrote:

> The BIG "feature" with the Foveon chip is it uses three sensors per pixel,
> and as such, eliminates the need to process the Bayer pattern RGBG sensor
> data.  Given that, the Foveon SHOULD return full color values, as in each
> pixel contains N bits of red, green and blue per pixel.  Given that, the
> raw data files from the Foveon are just like those from a scanning digital
> camera back (or for that matter, a film scanner), NOT like the raw data
> files from Bayer pattern cameras...so my point is, the only thing that is
> raw about the Foveon sensors returned data in raw mode is purely the pixel
> values.  The need for the Bayer pattern processing is unnecessary and is
> therefore eliminated, and therefore the raw data returned is entirely
> different, and has no bearing on the "current" digital camera raw
> format...as you apparently believe.