Digital BW, The Print

At 10:02 PM 2/12/2002 -0600, you 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
>
>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?...
>>


The NYT article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/technology/11FOVE.html?ex=1014446313&ei=1&

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