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In article , Doug McDonald
wrote: Which is to say, I don't get the folks complaining about the Bayer array + AA filter technology. It produces amazing images, and trying to do better is a fool's errand, on a single ship: three chip cameras with dichroic filters are much better. only if you don't mind the effect of the beamsplitters on lenses, the extra weight and the extra cost for 3 chips rather than 1 and the precision to keep everything in perfect alignment. other than that. |
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In article , nospam says...
and not likely to ever be, plus if you oversample with bayer, full colour sensors are not needed. Nonsense. Besides oversampling with Bayer is a very poor idea. If you want to oversample you better use full-colour pixels. -- Alfred Molon ------------------------------ Olympus E-series DSLRs and micro 4/3 forum at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/ http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site |
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In article , Alfred
Molon wrote: and not likely to ever be, plus if you oversample with bayer, full colour sensors are not needed. Nonsense. Besides oversampling with Bayer is a very poor idea. If you want to oversample you better use full-colour pixels. actually it's a very good idea. |
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nospam wrote:
In article , Alfred Molon wrote: and not likely to ever be, plus if you oversample with bayer, full colour sensors are not needed. Nonsense. Besides oversampling with Bayer is a very poor idea. If you want to oversample you better use full-colour pixels. actually it's a very good idea. Foveon religious zealots are as irrational as any other religious zealot. -- Ray Fischer | None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. | Goethe |
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In article , Ray Fischer
wrote: Foveon religious zealots are as irrational as any other religious zealot. but far more entertaining. |
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"Ray Fischer" wrote in message ... nospam wrote: In article , Alfred Molon wrote: and not likely to ever be, plus if you oversample with bayer, full colour sensors are not needed. Nonsense. Besides oversampling with Bayer is a very poor idea. If you want to oversample you better use full-colour pixels. actually it's a very good idea. Foveon religious zealots are as irrational as any other religious zealot. Exactly. But to get back to my now clipped point: if you actually look at the images cameras like the D700, 5D, and 5D2 produce, they are superb. Worlds better than we ever got with 35mm film. Medium format quality with 35mm convenience. For anyone who actually takes photos and actually cares about print quality, life is really really good. Folks who don't take photos play counting angels on heads of pins games. -- David J. Littleboy Tokyo, Japan |
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Alan Browne wrote:
On 2012-03-10 10:59 , Doug McDonald wrote: On 3/10/2012 7:49 AM, David J. Littleboy wrote: Which is to say, I don't get the folks complaining about the Bayer array + AA filter technology. It produces amazing images, and trying to do better is a fool's errand, on a single ship: three chip cameras with dichroic filters are much better. With weight, volume, cost. It amazes me that ENG cameras still use the 3 CCD system. With larger bayer sensors the S/N will be much better. I would venture that it is the lens base that is a barrier to moving to a larger sensor. It requires a very long lens flange to sensor distance so yeah, larger format lenses would get ridiculous quickly. Cinema cameras have gone to digital with single sensor (bayer). |
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"David J. Littleboy" wrote in
: "Ray Fischer" wrote in message ... nospam wrote: In article , Alfred Molon wrote: and not likely to ever be, plus if you oversample with bayer, full colour sensors are not needed. Nonsense. Besides oversampling with Bayer is a very poor idea. If you want to oversample you better use full-colour pixels. actually it's a very good idea. Foveon religious zealots are as irrational as any other religious zealot. Exactly. But to get back to my now clipped point: if you actually look at the images cameras like the D700, 5D, and 5D2 produce, they are superb. Worlds better than we ever got with 35mm film. Medium format quality with 35mm convenience. Could be even better. Get rid of the mirrors and the huge bodies and you have medium format quality with P&S convenience. |
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"David J. Littleboy" wrote in
: "Me" wrote in message ... On 10/03/2012 10:48 p.m., Alfred Molon wrote: In , Me says... Ideal DX would be defined by a Bayer type sensor with 100% quantum efficiency and no read noise. No, an ideal sensor would be a full-colour sensor, not a Bayer one. But at the moment full-colour sensor technology is not good enough yet. I think I mentioned that. Yes, an "ideal" foveon outperforms an "ideal" bayer sensor. I suppose. But a real Bayer gets quite close to an ideal Bayer, whereas Foveon needs 100% transparency to the bands not detected in the top two layers, and that's never going to happen, not even close. Also, getting high QE out of Foveon in the detection layers is going to be way harder. Meanwhile, as I keep saying over and over again, Bayer is flipping amazing. 12MP FF Bayer makes 35mm film look sick at 12x18. There's just no comparison. And 36MP FF Bayer is going to match 6x9 film at 16x24. This is friggin' amazing: a measly 24x36mm of silicon competing with 56x92 mm of film. Which is to say, I don't get the folks complaining about the Bayer array + AA filter technology. It produces amazing images, and trying to do better is a fool's errand, since all you get is worse color/noise performance (real life Foveon) and horrific artifacts (from leaving out the mathematically required AA filter). Is...the sky...really falling on Nikon? |
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Doug McDonald wrote in
: On 3/10/2012 7:49 AM, David J. Littleboy wrote: Which is to say, I don't get the folks complaining about the Bayer array + AA filter technology. It produces amazing images, and trying to do better is a fool's errand, on a single ship: three chip cameras with dichroic filters are much better. Doug McDonald That's what they use in scientific experiments, astronomy. You can't use Bayer because it can't acccurately reproduce colour. Except for consumer quality images. Good thing about some images, particularly in astronomy is that they hold still long enough to take 3 exposures. |
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