Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I know the technical principals of Foveon. If anybody in the > world can do this, they can do it: they are at the very top of > the profession of radical innovation in custom integrated > circuits. I don't know enough about the field to have an opinion > about whether the X3/Foveon chip is inrinsically possible, but I > know that if anybody in the world can do it, Carver and Jim can. I don't doubt their brilliance, but I do question their hype. At a lecture at CMU, Carver made an unqualified "claim". He said he makes prints 40" with the new Foveon sensor, and gave no details, and I guess figured that a bunch of CMUers couldn't do the arithmetic, and it would just "float" right by them. Well, given the sensor is 2268 x 1512, it comes out to a little less than 60 pixels per inch to the printer. Anyone get a decent print from 60 PPI to the printer? Now, I think in the interest of "full" disclosure, if he used Genuine Fractals, or some up-rezzing technology, he should state such. If this sensor is so great, then why the need to exaggerate, as well as make up problems with other technologies that have long been solved? At least for me, it makes me question the legitimacy of their, possibly, real claims. Austin - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html