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To: Road Walker who wrote (17)	1/9/2003 6:48:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 36

RE:"One disadvantage is that the data out is raw data, and requires software manipulation. That hurts in the low end market" Actually RAW mode is a good feature as compression usually trims the quality. OTOH, RAW is large file and most consumer cameras use .jpg or .tif. Seems like the camera could just do the conversion on board. Seems like my Canon offers RAW. The Nikon I'm familiar with does .tif. You're right they need a big win. Likely it will come in the high end. For the watershed we need foveon in the consumer sector, no? Foveon kind of reminds me of AMDs Hammer. By the time they get it going good, Intel will have the P4 at "seemingly" competitive performance and no one will bother to switch... OTOH maybe foveon is THAT much better and it has plenty of time. We'll see.