Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital progress
From: "Tim Spragens" <info@borderless-photos.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:14:30 +0100

On 29 Oct 00, at 16:29, Austin Franklin wrote:

> That aside, it wasn't what I was referring to though.  The 'new' 
> technologies, such as, I believe, the Foveon, use three sensors, and so it 
> used three sensors per color pixel, this type of data manipulation that is 
> used in a Bayer pattern as you describe is not required.

Foveon is as of yet tethered to a computer - these aren't the 
sensors that Kodak is using, as mentioned in the original post. I 
can't see that the calculations are cutting edge technology, but it is 
more advanced than desktop scanners.