John Francis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:07:25PM -0500, Mark Erickson wrote: >> Rumors are surfacing that Foveon sensors may show up in non Sigma DSLRs in >> the next six months or so. Foveon's design escapes resolution issues that >> are intrinsic to Bayer pattern color sensors. I don't see why Pentax has to >> stick with Sony forever. Wouldn't it be cool if Pentax tied up with Foveon >> for their next DSLR sensor? >> >> --Mark > > Not unless they come up with a sensor with more than 3M photosites. > > If they have 6M 3-colour photosites I'd be interested, though. > >
They're at 4MP and change with a 1.7x crop right now (For the SD14 & DP1), I suspect they could do 6MP at 1.5x without too much dificulty. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
