Digital BW, The Print

Jerry-Della,

Take a look at dpreview.com

They have short preview of a prototype and sample pictures.
You can also see the Sigma camera that will be available at
the end of February.

It looks very promising. If it does what they say then at
last we will have a better solution than CCD.

Jose Luis Martinez
Barcelona - Spain

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Message: 22
   Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:02:23 -0600
   From: Jerry Olson <jerryolson@...>
Subject: Re: Foveon/X3/Sygma (OT, sorry)

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