Digital BW, The Print

> 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 ( 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.
> 
The vast majority of waiting time is taken in writing the captured image to
the storage media. You'll notice that the camera is ready much faster when
you set the mode to highly-compressed JPGs, than if you shoot in TIFF mode
at the same resolution, despite the JPG requiring more processing. The
difference is due to the file size.

Darren.
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