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[filmscanners] RE: Newish Digital Tech
Karl,
> That's not how the Foveon chip works. There are no filters. They
> are taking
> advantage of the fact that different light frequencies have
> different depth
> penetrations into silicon.
Well, yes and no...but anyway, filtering HAS to take place, or you could not
distinguish between RGB.
> Essentially there is not going to be as clean a
> differentiation between the amount of light at the R,G and B
> sites,
What EXACTLY is the sensing mechanism? Do you know, and if so, can you
describe it?
> and they
> are relying on subractive calculation to compute the R and G
> values.
Speculation, or do you have a resource for this information?
Regards,
Austin
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