Digital BW, The Print

Jerry, 
Who may I ask is Claude Jodoin ?

Before you decide to spend hard earned bucks on the Foveon X3, here's 
something you might want to know about the Sigma D9, the only camera 
available now with the Foveon chip, AFAIK.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sigmasd9/page24.asp

Cheers,
Andre


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> 
> Austin, a post from Claude Jodin:
> 
> 
> The Foveon X3 is a little better than the D60 and only slightly 
better
> than 
> the S2 in the sharpness department. It will also interpolate to a 
14 
> Megapixel file from it's RAW processing software, so it gives the 
new
> Canon 
> 11 MP a run for it's money. More importantly, what it doesn't have 
is
> moire 
> patterns in my backlit veil and "killer pillow'" test which makes 
all
> single 
> shot digital cameras tested here in the last 5 years (you name it) 
puke.
> Only 
> the Sigma/X3, the original Foveon 3-chip prism camera, and the 
Kodak Pro
> Back 
> with the Anti Aliasing filter have escapted the killer pillow 
intact.
> 
> Where the Foveon creations shine is when you make 40x50 canvases on 
a
> Big 
> Epson. Everyone else falls apart at 30x40.
> 
> Claude Jodoin