[filmscanners] RE: Newish Digital Tech

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

> From: Austin Franklin
>
> What ever the number is, it's a "so what" though...red herring as it were.
> The Bayer pattern sensor is only designed to sense the light of a
> particular
> color at a certain spatial point.  Images from Bayer pattern
> imaging sensors
> have not shown to be inferior to those of scanning cameras, or the Foveon,
> with respect to same sensor area comparisons. Typically, scanning cameras
> will be better as they have a much higher resolution.

The point is that the more photons you capture, the less noise you get.
Assuming the Foveon wastes the same percentage of its area on interconnect
as a Bayer pattern chip, the Bayer chip will filter out all the "wrong"
color photons that hit each sensor, while the Foveon will actually use them.

Obviously, implementation matters. But I see no reason to expect that a
Bayer pattern chip is intrinsically better--it's just been worked on longer.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com


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