Фотографии. Все о фото.

There is a behind the scenes battle going on in digital still photography between two major technologies that has some of the features of the battle between VHS and Betamax video tape battle of yesteryear.

It is between the Bayer sensor which is a monochrome sensor, used in almost all digital cameras  and the worlds first true colour sensor -  the Foveon. The Bayer system uses a colour grid array filter overlay and in camera software allocates a colour value to each photosite, to give an emulated colour image. The Foveon is a 3 layer sensor with true colour sensitivity for red, green and blue. Foveon (now owned by Sigma) claim that this increases colour detail and sharpness detail in the images over and above Bayer sensors. I will not detail the precise techo talk behind this as it is well covered elswhere on the net (Wikipedia has a good summary).