Re: [photo-3d] digital

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>    Foveon, Inc., just announced a new chip:  16.8 M pixel CMOS
>(complementary metal oxide semiconductor chip), with 2.5 times more
>transistors than a Pentium III...According to the announcement, top
>professional gear today captures about 6 M pixels....cameras chould be
>available by early 2001.  Kodak has also announced a 61 M CCD (charge
>coupled devie) chip.  This is the first time that a CMOS chip has
>surpassed a CCD chip, which has been the technology of the last 20
>years....

Wow! With those kind of sizes, storage is going to enter the picture
depending on compression (if any). From time to time I'd considered
buy a Nikon 950/990 or Canon 3030 zoom, and storing in TIFF format
(or better, PNG if possible)-I was thinking of adding a couple of hundred meg
flash card (or similar) in order to get a reasonable number of exposures
which (the last time I checked) would add a couple of hundred $ more
to the camera price.

--BW

              Bob Wier
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   18:25 GMT Tuesday, September 12, 2000
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