Here's a link to the beginning of the story in Discover Magazine. It's actually a quite long and flattering article about Mead and Foveon, complete with pictures that demonstrate the technology.
discover.com
I'm not much of a typist, but I'll give you a couple of paragraphs from the magazine article here:
...And now one of Mead's simplest ideas - a digital camera should see color the way the human eye does - is poised to change everything about photography. Its first embodiment is a sensor - called the X3 - that produces images as good as or better than what can be achieved with film. That would make the X3 the most important advance in photography in nearly 70 years, but the long-term implications are even richer. In a year or two, you will be able to pack a true hybrid camera on vacation. It will take high-resolution stills, or, upon the flip of a switch, it will take full-length, full-motion video, far exceeding the capabilities of present-day hybrid cameras. In the long run, X3 technology could even make cell-phone video sharp enough to project onto a big screen TV...
...Mead has another paradigm in mind: "Whenever a radically new technology has developed, a new major company has come out of it. When the transistor came along, we got Texas Instruments. When the integrated circuit came along, we got Intel. When we got microprocessors and personal computers, we got Microsoft.
"That's the way I see Foveon. It doesn't mean we're going to put others out of business. We have no intention of doing that. They're becoming our customers. We're forming alliances."
"We're not going to be an 'Apple'," he adds. "We're not going to turn ourselves into an island. We're going to be more like a Microsoft or an Intel."...
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I really like this idea a lot. Could you give me a link that shows the full breakdown of the ownership of Foveon? I want to buy a piece of the action and am looking for the best way to play it.
Regards, JB |
