Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 1/1/2004 2:38:01 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:
All?  Possible?  That's simply not true.  There are no gallium arsenide
computer chips in %99.9999999 of modern computers, these chips (processor,
memory, chipsets etc.) are silicon based.
You missed the comma I placed between arsenide and VLSI. Most of the large 
scale integration today is in CMOS, as are the Foveon sensors.

As to overstating his accomplshments, Carver received the coveted Lemelson 
prize from MIT in 1999, the year I met him. So there's a half million reasons 
why I disagree with your opinion on my "overstatment of his accomplishments."

http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-mead.html

As to my co-incidental mention of the X3 development, I had read about the 
depth properties of silicon in some Kodak white papers some years ago. I 
mentioned the idea in some my daily Emails, which went unanswered for some time. They 
later told me that I had caused them to have a meeting about a "possible 
leak" since they were concurrently working on the patents and aquiring other 
patents on this idea, hence the word "co-incidental." There's a big difference 
between words in an Email and committing $50 million in R&D, so I have no 
pretenses about any contributions. However, Foveon's chief engineer did admit to my 
idea being "prescient" in later correspondences.  I'm no Dick Merrill, brilliant 
analog chip designer, I'm just a owrking photographer with a former 
electronics background. I'm not trying to overimpress anyone, I just sell prints for a 
living in the portrait market.

I still think that by way of the "no color filter or fuzzy filter" approach 
to the SD-9 and the new improved SD-10 makes for sharper images in color and 
B&W than their Bayer/AA filtered counterparts. Opinions, pro and con, are well 
and good, but I have files and made prints with Carbons and Pigments from all 
current cameras.

I have owned all of them and made sold prints from all of them. I am not a 
theorist, I'm a doer. Light control, composition, and marketing are far more 
important than recording and scanning devices. The most important of all is 
making out bank deposit slips. The least important is being an argumentative 
technical elitist.

Claude


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