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RE: Future of Photography (was filmscanners: real value?)
> 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?
Not only is the registration far more critical, the coplanarity is
too...meaning how flat the sensors are WRT each other, and the focus plane.
It all will make for a very sensitive instrument.
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