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Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera

Posted by simoniker on from the color-filter-volume-goes-to-four dept.

Artifex writes "If you're looking to spend about $1200 on a new digital camera, check out this Digital Photography Review look at Sony's upcoming 8 MegaPixel Cyber-shot DSC-F828. The most interesting thing isn't the number of pixels in this prosumer-grade camera, but its 4-color filter CCD system. ['Instead of the traditional RGB color filter array, the new CFA is made up of Red, Green, Blue and Emerald (like Cyan) color filters.'] I've always been a strict Canon fan, but this is making me think twice."

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  1. woah! by NudeZiggy · · Score: 4, Funny

    is this like in response to the article about those people born with extra cones and see that odd shade of green that no one else can see?

    1. Re:woah! by BabyDave · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe they mean Octarine:

      It was the King Colour, of which all the lesser colours are merely partial and wishy-washy reflections. It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because whereever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.

      But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.
  2. If you're looking to spend about $1200 on a camera by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...why on earth are you wasting your time lounging around /.? Get back to work, man! Make the big bucks! Hurry!

  3. Prosumer-grade digital camera? ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 3, Funny
    Feed the baby, wife and self, pay the mortgage, etc.?

    Decisions, decisions.

    1. Re:Prosumer-grade digital camera? ... by Artifex · · Score: 3, Funny
      Feed the baby, wife and self, pay the mortgage, etc.?
      Decisions, decisions.


      Okay, beyond the obligatory "you must be new here," I have to say I don't have a baby or a wife or a mortgage, and I should lose a lot of weight. I still don't have another job, either, so that frees me to have all sorts of silly dreams.
      --
      Get off my launchpad!
  4. Amazingly by LiftOp · · Score: 4, Funny

    For the same $1200, you can get corrective eye surgery so you can see something close to half the resolution offered....

  5. Cyan by mopslik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Emerald (like Cyan)

    Isn't cyan blue? Reminds me of an old sketch by the Frantics:

    "I remember her eyes over the yawning abyss of a week and a half. I remember their brown glow lighting the room like a shock of azure sky...

    Azure...

    Blue. Right. They were blue. Blue as ocean water, in its deepest emerald hues....

    Emerald.... Green.

    Right. They were... they were green, kind of a greeny-blue... Sort of aquamarine, with browninsh flecks.....

    OK, I remember her tits.

  6. Argh! by Wiz · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new emerald overlords!

  7. It's Squant! by xleeko · · Score: 2, Funny

    All right! I've been waiting for a Squant-sensitive camera for a while now. Now I can start creating my web pages using the Negativland Squant Plugin!

  8. Re:Colorblindess on the X by nonameisgood · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, it seems to be a matter of having a greater ... ability to discriminate among colors.

    Hey, we'll have no discriminating among colors here!

    --
    Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a critical component of spiritual devotion. Jon Krakauer
  9. so there's a chance.. by Large+Green+Mallard · · Score: 2, Funny

    That for once, Sony will make a digital camera with colour balance that doesn't look like it was calibrated by a colour blind monkey with a penchant for blue?