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To: Ausdauer who wrote (14714)	9/11/2000 9:21:09 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Foveon was never intended for the average serious amateur. It is, because of its size, power requirements, and general bulk, suitable as a studio camera for portraits, advertising displays, etc. Compared with conventional studio equipment, and especially when factoring in the total cost of prints, Foveon ought to be a major success, but only for professional photographers who concentrate in fields such as portraiture, fashion, advertising, and other studio applications where maximum detail is required. Despite its bulk, it will always have a market in the studio (unless someone develops something less expensive) because it has one great advantage over standard professional digital cameras (regardless of resolution) -- no moire. The best analogy to Foveon would be the old Devon one-shot color camera, which made three color separation negatives simultaneously, to be processed for printing by dye transfer or similar technologies (now all but disappeared).