Re: Future of Photography (was filmscanners: real value?)

[Hugo Gävert <hugo@cc.hut.fi>]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Arthur Entlich wrote:

> I know that professional Video CCD cameras use (or at least did... I'm 
> somewhat out of touch today) separate chips for each of the two or three 
> colors (RGB) with some type of beam slipper (some used two and used 
> subtractive math to "figure out" the third, I believe).  That allowed 
> for smaller chips, since each was only responsible for one color, and 
> then they were superimposed upon each other, like color separations. 
> Would this not work for digital stills, or is the resolution so high 
> they couldn't get registration?

I think you are absolutely correct about the video cameras, and for
the rest: sure, just see Hasselblad DFinity at
http://www.hasselblad.se/press/detail.cgi?new/969464191.txt

Best regards,
        Hugo.

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