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

2002-02-13 by Derek Clarke

The first commercial use of the technology will be in a Sigma digital SLR.

The particular chip will be circa 3 megapixels, but the essence of this chip 
is that those are true RGB pixels, not R or G or B ones.

There's a lot of info at http://www.dpreview.com

On Wednesday 13 Feb 2002 4:02 am, Jerry Olson wrote:
> 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

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