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What is "Foveon Blue"?

Started May 26, 2014 | Discussions thread
Lin Evans
Lin Evans Forum Pro • Posts: 17,702
Re: What is "Foveon Blue"?

The term actually references the blues from the original SD9 which tended to produce some very deep blues. In some cases they were spot on the color as seen by the human eye and in other cases the blues were pretty but not natural.

Below is an actual sample from my SD9 which is very close to the actual appearance of the sky on that day...

Original color from SD9 - close to reality in this case....

Best regards,

Lin

PicOne wrote:

I used this color mode on the below photo, and see what it does to colors, but where did this term originate and what does it reference? Did the old sigma cameras used to show this color as the default rendition.?

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