Agree, I say -
the Bayer array will be gone day,
no more will inaccurate colour ruin the day,
hooray.
On 17 Jun 2009, at 4:56 AM, Sue Pearce wrote:
> I didn't know they smoked that stuff in Grinnell.
>
> Bill Pearce
>> I believe a future generation of sensors will actually measure the
>> wavelength of the light falling upon each pixel position. Current
>> sensor
>> technology uses colored filters to create a subtractive color-
>> matrix to be
>> used inversely in an additive color-matrix during image recreation.
>> However,
>> instead of colored filters, a sensor's bucket could be variable-
>> depth and
>> would "resonate" to the wavelength of the light hitting it. The
>> variable
>> depth could be accomplished by something like multiple layers of
>> liquid-crystals which are activated instantly and in progression to
>> effectively shorten the depth of the sensor's pixel column. In
>> case this
>> sounds familiar, this is the basis of a laser.
>>
>> A filterless sensor would be completely free from the limitations
>> of the
>> current arrays and would be totally free from colorspace issues as
>> there
>> is
>> absolutely no color subtractive/additive processing going on.
>> Inotherwords,
>> yellow is captured as yellow, not a combination of green and red.
>>
>> Another variation of the theme would be to have each pixel "bucket"
>> using
>> a
>> variable color filter (using the anti-reflection coatings in lenses)
>> throughout the depth of the bucket and the sensor itself would
>> respond to
>> the light at the depth corresponding to the color hitting that
>> bucket.
>> Again, the greater the depth of the bucket, the greater the potential
>> range
>> of wavelengths that can be captured.
>>
>> AG
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>>
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