Digital BW, The Print

Jerry,

> Austin, have you actually seen the results of a foveon chip?

Yes.  Not manipulated images, but actual from the camera images.

> seen a
> direct comparison with anybody else's 6 megapixel chip? If you have,
> what did you see?

Er, that the Foveon has color problems, and doesn't have as much detail as
the 6M camera does.

> Do you know the people who invented it?

Yes.

> They are not chopped liver.
> They are quite famous scientists.

I'm no slouch my self, Jerry.  I started life as a Staff Scientist at IBM
Cambridge Scientific Center after getting degrees from three letter schools.
That was in 1978, at age 20.  I've done a lot since then.

> I don't care HOW you put the numbers together or HOW technical you want
> to be. I only care about results.

And I understand that.

> and I know the Foveon has more detail,
> sharpness, resolution, or whatever you want to call it than the Canon
> D60 chip; at least that's what the prints show me.

You are missing the point.  It is what YOU see in the prints you are being
shown.  You have no clue how accurate the actual image is (that's called
fidelity), or what was really done to the images to make them look as they
do.

If you are happy with them, of course, then they are for you...but it
becomes borderline surrealism when the images contain less original image
information than they do original information.  That's the part you're
missing.  You may as well take up painting ;-)

Austin