Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera

Posted by simoniker on Monday August 18, 2003 @07:54AM 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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Re:Forget it by SheldonYoung · 2003-08-18 08:16 · Score: 5, Insightful

No, not 'nuff said. The tradeoff with the Foveon sensor is the stacked detectors for each color component create much more noise in the bottom component. In the end it will mostly come down to which sensor type can be produced more practically.