RE: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

["Soren Svensson (EUS)" <Soren.Svensson@am1.ericsson.se>]

Title: RE: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

> From: Austin Franklin [mailto:darkroom@ix.netcom.com]

Sorry it took so long to answer this (been sick).

Lets make this really simple. Take three scenarios:

1: The four sensor chip we've been discussing so far (GRGB).

2: A beam splitter with three monochrome chips of the same size as above.

3: One chip with twice the density (each pixel position contains full RGB info).

You're saying that scenario 1 will produce the BEST image?

> I really do hate to mentioning this,
> but I am a professional engineer and have been designing
> digital imaging systems for over 20 years.  I really do
> know exactly how these things work.
> What is your background WRT digital imaging?  Have you
> actually done designs with these sensors, and you are
> speaking from experience?  I have, and I am.

Well, you have 5 years head start on me. I'm also a professional engineer and have been designing high-end embedded systems (yes, even digital imaging systems) for about 15 years. I do (design and implementation) software for them, not hardware, but I think I'm still qualified to discuss this issue.

I don't question that you're qualified for this and I find your posts on the Piezo list very informative. But I don't agree that the current crop of consumer/prosumer CCD chips is the best solution. The most cost-effective maybe, but it's still cheating!

Regards
/Soren