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Improving Digital Photography

Posted by michael on from the let-there-be-light-and-high-resolution-graphics dept.

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.

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  1. If this X3 thing is so great... by intermodal · · Score: 3, Funny

    wait till a few years down the road once he's up to X10!

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  2. leave politics alone by L.+VeGas · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's very, very hard to have a simple idea."

    I don't know about anyone else, but this GW Bush bashing is getting a little tiresome.

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    1. Re:leave politics alone by ddimas · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey, at least it isn't like when his father was President, you know, economy in the toilet, at war with half the world, everyone and their brother is enemployed... Wait a minute...

  3. Cheaper by MojoMonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd be cheaper for me to just gain the ability to hold my damn current digital camera still while taking a picture. That would improve the pictures of my pooch 100%.

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  4. Good as Film? by dave_f1m · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, now I can stop scanning in those 21Mpixel images from film, and get a 10Mpixel digital camera. Since it uses 3 layers, those pixels must count for more than twice as many from the 35mm film. And the dynamic range is surely greater tha slide film. Finally the shadow detail in that otherwise brightly lit scene that I needed to use slide film, and capture at 48bit can be resolved with a 24bit image! Now I won't need more memory - my files will be 1/4th the size, and look just as good!
    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.

  5. Moire & the naked eye.... by Alyeska · · Score: 2, Funny
    Moire patterns, with the naked eye?! Really? I've never heard of that.

    I think Drs. Hoffman and Leary had white papers about the subject....