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What is "Foveon Blue"?

Started May 26, 2014 | Discussions thread
PicOne
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Re: What is "Foveon Blue"?

Lin Evans wrote:

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

Wow.. talk about "Pop Art"..  looks like a chunk out of a Warhol piece

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