on 5/23/02 5:46 AM, Mike Cormier at ronaldcormier@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> According to the last 2 issues of Shutterbug, the future is not in CCD chips
> at all, but rather in CMOS chips like the X3 produced by Foveon (and now in
> the latest Fuji pro digi SLR).
>
> With this new technology each chip pixel can read all 3 major colors (red,
> blue, green), thus a 3MP CMOS chip has about twice the resolution of a CCD
> chip, or a little over 6MP.
>
> Additionally, these chips are aparently less expensive and can be made as
> large as 6cm x 6cm or even larger...
>
> Aparently the chip uses the fact that different colors penetrate silicon to
> different depths, so 3 sensors can be mounted in each pixel space, stacked.
>
> The best article about it was in April's Shutterbug. I'd quote the pages,
> but I'm at work... :(
When this technology becomes widespread, the probability that digital will
displace film will increase, but I suspect cost will prevent that from
happening quickly for the first few years. When the cost becomes low enough,
a CMOS sensor digital camera with a 24mm x 36mm sensor will donate its guts
to one of my surplus OM backs, and with a little metal surgury we'll see if
a digital-OM (more like Franken-digi-OM) will be created... I'll be up in
the tower laboratory scheming if anyone calls...
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
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