Looks like the Foveon chip will finally hit the consumer market in the $399 Polaroid x530. Here's the Foveon website, and here's the NYTimes story on the Polaroid camera:This week Foveon will enter the mainstream market with a new camera priced at $399 that will be manufactured in China and marketed as the Polaroid x530 with Foveon technology.
The Foveon sensor chip, called the X3, is made using an industry standard semiconductor manufacturing process and has received good reviews for color fidelity and resolution. The chip is composed of millions of photo-detectors, each capable of capturing red, blue and green light. In contrast, most of today's digital cameras use a chip with individual color filters that correspond to each photoreceptor. Although the Foveon technology is generally thought to have advantages over the three-chip approach in image quality, cost, lower power consumption and adaptability to new photo and video applications, it has not been widely adopted. The challenge has been to compete with an older, more entrenched technology that is falling in cost. Falling in cost is to put it mildly. I'm thinking the Foveon might be too late, but it will be interesting to see the quality.
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- jim 2-10-2004 5:06 pm
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