Improving Digital Photography 401
Milican writes "'It's easy to have a complicated idea," Carver Mead used to tell his students at Caltech. "It's very, very hard to have a simple idea...And now one of Mead's simplest ideas--a digital camera should see color the way the human eye does--is poised to change everything about photography. Its first embodiment is a sensor - called the X3 - that produces images as good as or better than what can be achieved with film.'" We had a previous story about Foveon last February.
If this X3 thing is so great... (Score:3, Funny)
leave politics alone (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know about anyone else, but this GW Bush bashing is getting a little tiresome.
Cheaper (Score:2, Funny)
Good as Film? (Score:5, Funny)
And it sees just like we do! Same 3 colors, same intensity relations, all on each pixel! Because everyone knows the human eye has only one kind of sensor in it. It's not like mammal eyes that have rods and cones.
Sorry, film will be around a little longer....
- dave f.
Re:leave politics alone (Score:2, Funny)
Moire & the naked eye.... (Score:2, Funny)
I think Drs. Hoffman and Leary had white papers about the subject....