Digital BW, The Print

Peter Jennings mentioned the foveon chip on the abc news show. Spoke all of 10 seconds on it, I thought It would be a feaurette later in the
show, but he never returned to it.

What is the resolution of this chip? It would have to be in the neighborhood of 6 to 8 megapixels, no?

Jerry

dellaellingson wrote:

> Did anyone read the article about Foveon chips in the NY Times? A
> Japanese company is using this new chip to manufacture a camera.
> Kodak was quoted to say that this new invention will allow resolution
> better than film. Is this what we are waiting for? The Japanese
> camera will be $3,000 and Kodak was quoted to say $1,000. I have
> never spent $1,000 on a conventional camera body yet! But I almost
> probably will with digital technology, because I find it so
> fascinating.
>
> -Della
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "marktuckerdotcom"
> <mark@m...> wrote:
> > I can't believe I'm jumping into this digital talk too, but this
> > announcement this morning seems pretty exciting. Better
> > resolution, and very affordable.
> >
> > http://www.dpreview.com/
> > http://www.foveon.com/
> >
> > It's a color chip, not B/W, but the camera body is at least black.
> > Does that count for anything, to remain on topic?...
>
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