Oh yeah, to get full luminance information from any "X" megapixel sensor, all the individual pixels have to be wideband monochrome, (no bayer filtering). I think kodak actually made one like this at one time, I would love one, if it was cheap and much higher resolution than a same Mp color bayer one and I dont see why not. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Lacus Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:45 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Pentax and Foveon? Hello John, > why have you trucate edited my comments to make > them out context? I was just commenting that > in terms of resolution, a 3Mp true color sensor > is more resolution than 10Mp bayer type sensor which > is really only 2.5Mp true color upconverted/interpolated > back up to a "fake" full color 10Mp., that's all. I don't think they were out of context but I'm sorry if you felt it that way. As I understand it you were comparing the resolution of "3Mp true color sensor" to that of "12Mp Bayer sensor". I just think it's probably not entirely fair comparison because IMHO with Bayer sensor you are getting full resolution luminance information, it's just colour information what is incomplete and needs to be interpolated. I'm with John Francis on this one (3Mp Foveon =~ 6Mp Bayer) or I may even prefer 6Mp Bayer over 3Mp Foveon (depending on subject). Cheers, Peter -- 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
