New Foveon sensor for digital camcorders

In rec.photo.equipment.35mm George Preddy wrote:
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"Hal" wrote:

Well, the article that you're included in your post indicates that it is
indeed a 4.5MP. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/04...laroidx530.asp
It even refers back to the article that I posted for more information (?).
So, I'm a bit confused.

I'm not finding the reference supporting your claim. Since I do _try_ to
follow these things closely, I'd appreciate your pointing out the specific
reference for me. I'm not trying to be argumentative here, I really do want
to understand your point.

Foveon is trying to hype their products by tripling the number of actual
pixels in their marketing language. What they call a 4.5MP sensor is
actually a 1.5MP sensor that detects three color bands at each pixel.

As opposed to other manufacturers calling sensing 1 color band,
sensing a full color pixel.

Care to name any camera maufcaturer doing that with their SLR cameras?


The Foveon 5M (thier P&S sensor) is a 6MP chip, not 4.5MP. It outputs
6M pixels (3000 x 2000) from 1.5M complete RGB triples, which is
exactly the same as the Canon 10D but with DRAMATICALLY lower noise
and increased DR.

1.5 M complete RGB triplets are 1.5 megapixels - not 3 and certainly not
6 megapixels.


Foveon continues to be ridiculously conservative in their MPs rating
compared to Bayer manufactures who often list 800% interpolatively
upscaled images as the actual MP count (Fuji)!!

Not only bull**** but also completely off-topic (this group is about
35mm film equipment) bull****.

--
Sander

+++ Out of cheese error +++

My 1 megapixel fuji doesn't have the noise in low light either. Oh yeah.
Either does my 2 megapixel fuji.


"George Preddy" wrote in message
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wrote in message
. ..
In message ,
"Hal" wrote:

Well, the article that you're included in your post indicates that it
is
indeed a 4.5MP.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/04...laroidx530.asp
It even refers back to the article that I posted for more information
(?).
So, I'm a bit confused.

I'm not finding the reference supporting your claim. Since I do _try_
to
follow these things closely, I'd appreciate your pointing out the
specific
reference for me. I'm not trying to be argumentative here, I really do
want
to understand your point.

Foveon is trying to hype their products by tripling the number of actual
pixels in their marketing language. What they call a 4.5MP sensor is
actually a 1.5MP sensor that detects three color bands at each pixel.

As opposed to other manufacturers calling sensing 1 color band,
sensing a full color pixel.

The Foveon 5M (thier P&S sensor) is a 6MP chip, not 4.5MP. It outputs
6M pixels (3000 x 2000) from 1.5M complete RGB triples, which is
exactly the same as the Canon 10D but with DRAMATICALLY lower noise
and increased DR.

Foveon continues to be ridiculously conservative in their MPs rating
compared to Bayer manufactures who often list 800% interpolatively
upscaled images as the actual MP count (Fuji)!!

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:34:02 +0000 (UTC), Sander Vesik
wrote:

Not only bull**** but also completely off-topic (this group is about
35mm film equipment) bull****.

Actually, this went to all these newsgroups:
rec.video.desktop,rec.photo.digital,aus.photo,rec. photo.equipment.35mm,alt.comp.periphs.dcameras
I'm sure you can get your reader to tell you this.

Bill Funk
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