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Old February 15th 04, 03:57 AM
Richard Crisp
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Default Foveon's revolutionary X3 sensor

the dark currents are very high, there is cross talk between the color
channels that needs to be filtered via DSP techniques.

the price of the sensor is higher than the same area made by conventional
techniques.


"Szaki" wrote in message
news:8dbXb.28793$jk2.68427@attbi_s53...
Would this new chip revolutionise ccd-astronomy also? It uses fulll colour
layered sensor array!
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02021101foveonx3.asp

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