Foveon X3 exclusive preview

rahjinoh · 12th February 2002

Foveon has today announced a new, revolutionary image sensor called the X3. A traditional digital camera sensor works by capturing just one colour (red, green or blue) at each pixel location. These individual pixels are then combined in software to produce a full colour pixel. The X3 is the first sensor which is capable of capturing full colour for every pixel in its array. The X3 does so with a special photosite which is measures different colours at different 'depths' within the silicon. The first camera to use the new sensor will be the $3,000 Sigma SD9 D-SLR (Sigma lens mount), Kodak have also shown an interest in using the X3 technology.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02...nx3preview.asp

As you can see the sensor's ability to capture detailed resolution, both in the grayscale and colour resolution goes way beyond what we could expect from even the best Bayer pattern sensors. Images from the new Foveon X3 sensor are more reminicent of super high quality slide scans, but go even beyond that with no trace of grain. Very impressive. This could be the first sensor to truly surpass film.

Wah wah!

Fundee · 13th February 2002

take a good look at the picture ....light source coming from two different directions will give you a different tone of colours...i think that is not a fair comparision.......

mpenza · 13th February 2002

some more discussions here:
http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthrea...&threadid=1400

denizenx · 14th February 2002

It's not a tone comparison, it's the colour moire when u interpolate 3 colours into 1. I think phil askey's shots are easier to swallow, since we've all seen how he shoots and what his wife looks like on different cameras.

franciskc · 19th February 2002

hmm looks like a dynamo and Fab detergent advertisement

12th February 2002	#1
rahjinoh Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 56	Foveon X3 exclusive preview Foveon has today announced a new, revolutionary image sensor called the X3. A traditional digital camera sensor works by capturing just one colour (red, green or blue) at each pixel location. These individual pixels are then combined in software to produce a full colour pixel. The X3 is the first sensor which is capable of capturing full colour for every pixel in its array. The X3 does so with a special photosite which is measures different colours at different 'depths' within the silicon. The first camera to use the new sensor will be the $3,000 Sigma SD9 D-SLR (Sigma lens mount), Kodak have also shown an interest in using the X3 technology. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02...nx3preview.asp As you can see the sensor's ability to capture detailed resolution, both in the grayscale and colour resolution goes way beyond what we could expect from even the best Bayer pattern sensors. Images from the new Foveon X3 sensor are more reminicent of super high quality slide scans, but go even beyond that with no trace of grain. Very impressive. This could be the first sensor to truly surpass film. Wah wah!

14th February 2002	#4
denizenx Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: L2TPYSG Posts: 4,514	It's not a tone comparison, it's the colour moire when u interpolate 3 colours into 1. I think phil askey's shots are easier to swallow, since we've all seen how he shoots and what his wife looks like on different cameras. __________________ "I'm... dreaming... of a wide... angle~ Just like the ones I used to know~"

13th February 2002	#2
Fundee Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: UP NORTH Posts: 714	take a good look at the picture ....light source coming from two different directions will give you a different tone of colours...i think that is not a fair comparision.......

13th February 2002	#3
mpenza Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 13,397	some more discussions here: http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthrea...&threadid=1400

19th February 2002	#5
franciskc Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Earth Posts: 625	hmm looks like a dynamo and Fab detergent advertisement