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RE: [Digital BW] Foveon/X3/Sygma (OT, sorry)

2002-02-12 by Austin Franklin

> Austin Franklin wrote:
>
> > I do have questions on the diagrams they show in that
> > referenced link.  I am
> > NOT a physicist...but I am an engineer with varying degrees.
> > They show on
> > the top, that blue filter blocks green and red, and green
> > filter blocks red
> > and blue etc.
> >
> > Well, on the bottom, they show blue passes green and red, and
> > green passes
> > red only.  How does that work?
> >
>
> Hmmm, maybe here's how . . .the gory details are in the 1998 patent
> #5,965,875

Hi William,

Yep, I read that over, and it's still questionable.  The question, for me at
least, is that colored filters used in cameras/scanners/enlargers etc. are
very precisely colored.  I don't know how they can achieve that in silicon,
uniformly and across an entire die.

Austin

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