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The new FFF has some stiff competition

Started Dec 5, 2021 | Discussions thread
Scottelly
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Re: The new FFF has some stiff competition
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xpatUSA wrote:

dellaaa wrote:

Yes I'm not a physicist by any means, but from what I gather, for the Bayer sensor each photon passes thru one filter [but,] for Foveon, in order for the photon to reach the lowest layer it must travel thru 2 filters, each with some light loss plus the light loss for the silicon sensors themselves.

A popular view - but some red photons pass through silicon almost unimpeded - as in with virtually no loss.

And silicon is transparent to IR, no matter how many "layers" it passes through ...

If that's the case, then why do sensors need IR-cut filters Ted?

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