Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wonder how it compares to the Buffalo chip? Jim Brick wrote: > At 10:42 AM 2/11/2002 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: > >> Stunning barely begins to describe it. Granted, we are looking at these >> images on our monitors, but the fine detail is really pretty amazing. >> Obviously there are those on this list who will pooh-pooh anything >> digital, >> and those who will continue to tell us that digital development has >> hit a >> brick wall and it will be a decade before digital equals film. >> BUT...for the >> rest of us in the real world this does indeed give one pause in terms of >> making any further investment in film-based equipment at this time. >> >> B. D. > > > > It's a good thing that the journalism folks are not scientists. > Everything that a marketing organization utters is always the greatest > thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately marketing folks know that the > journalists will run wild and blow everything out of proportion making > the "breakthrough" seem like the second coming. > > There is a h-u-g-e amount of marketing hype associated with the Foveon > announcement. All of the same rules still apply. Foveon pixels are > still no smaller than any other pixel and Leica lenses still resolve > too much detail for the Foveon or any other sensor to capture without > producing unwanted artifacts. Nyquist, like Murphy, is still in there > taking his piece! > > All this chip might do is reduce the amount of color interpolation > that would normally be done. But I'm wondering how silicon happened to > know to filter the exact primary colors (R, G, & B) and not let any > other wavelengths through. Color film filters are exact. That's how we > get our film's color pallet. Adjusting the filter layers in film > produces saturated Velvia and E100VS, neutral Provia 100F, Astia, and > E100, etc. > > I guess we'll see. The examples that they show on their web site are > completely bogus. When's the last time you had color moire patterns on > your digital images? That problem was solved years ago. And getting > type to have every letter a different color is laughable. Actually, > impossible because a pixel cannot resolve a character. Only a point of > light. > > So let the marketing hype continue. > > Jim > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html