Digital BW, The Print

> > There is a HUGE processing saving (and that means in time as well)
> > because no interpolation is necessary..
>
> It isn't that big a deal...in fact, it is easily done in hardware, and the
> cost is very minimal.  I've developed some hardware interpolation
> filters...
>
> Austin
>
> Please forgive my ignorance, but I was under the impression that
> if the chip were able to capture all three elements (RGB etc),
> without interpolation and guestimating the correct color
> information, it would save a tremendous amount of time. what do
> you mean by it isn't that big a deal? I wait 40 seconds for a
> tiff file to be created

Hi George,

I highly doubt that is due to interpolation.

> ( although i will soon be trying raw),
> and emptying out a buffer during a portrait session can seem like eons.
> I thought that the Foveon would eliminate all the algorithyms
> etc. that take so long to create and write a file.

You can certainly test this by simply creating a raw image file...  I can
see if you are doing compression, that might slow things up...but
interpolation should be being done in hardware, and therefore take up
literally no additional time.  But again, I don't know what different
manufacturers do, so I really can't say.

Regards,

Austin