Digital BW, The Print

There has been some modifications to the sensor that goes into the SD10. 
Maybe some of the issues have been addressed. I guess we will soon see. 
The color matrix filter over an intensity CCD is basically three (or 4) 
offset sensors (one for each color) each with 1/3 (or 1/4) the the 
native resolution. the final image is produced by interpolation of these 
slightly offset images. The final  image cannot contain the information 
to produce the resolution or fidelity of the native resolution of the 
sensor. If the information is not there it can not be produced by 
interpolation no matter how sophisticated the interpolation algorithm. 
Interpolation is a smoothing process operating on the information that 
is there and cannot produce additional information. So it is somewhat 
misleading to advertise the resolution of these cameras at the native 
resolution of the sensor. It is just as valid for foveon to advertise 
their sensor as 3 X or about 10 megs as for Canon or Nikon to advertise 
theirs at the native resolution. There are a lot of shell games going on 
in the advertising of digital cameras.

Truman

Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:

> claudej1@... writes:
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> > What aspect are you referring to that needs perfecting?
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> Many sources say that it still needs work.  I haven't tried it myself.
> Obviously, the fundamental idea of capturing all three primary colors at
> every photosite is indisputably superior to using a matrix color filter.
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