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Making Foveon-like Images with a Bayer Camera

Started Feb 23, 2022 | Discussions thread
xpatUSA
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Re: Making Foveon-like Images with a Bayer Camera

Tom Schum wrote:

... most any high-megapixel-count camera out there can equal Merrill pixel quality as long as the number of resultant pixels from the Bayer is 1/4 of the total sensels (pixels) on that sensor. In other words, fp L = DP3M.

This is now seen to be a matter of processing ...

There you go, Tom.

Computational photography rules, these days.

Regrettably, the simple advantage of the Foveon (no color moiré) has long gone.

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