It would have to be at least the equiv of a 24Mp bayer for you to be interested? Even a 3Mp true color foveon is approx same as 12mp bayer, which is better than pentax's best at this point... jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Francis Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:40 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Pentax and Foveon? On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:07:25PM -0500, Mark Erickson wrote: > Rumors are surfacing that Foveon sensors may show up in non Sigma > DSLRs in > the next six months or so. Foveon's design escapes resolution issues that > are intrinsic to Bayer pattern color sensors. I don't see why Pentax has to > stick with Sony forever. Wouldn't it be cool if Pentax tied up with Foveon > for their next DSLR sensor? > > --Mark Not unless they come up with a sensor with more than 3M photosites. If they have 6M 3-colour photosites I'd be interested, though. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
