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To: George Gilder who wrote (32272)	6/1/1999 12:29:00 PM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

George, I'm a recent subscriber to the GTR. Your comments on the Mead analog camera are interesting, and if everything stayed the same it would likely displace film. However, the competition isn't just film, it's digital methodology, and things don't stay the same. Digital cameras will follow Moore's law and continue to rapidly improve. Film has reached a level where only minimal improvements are possible. Mead's previous innovations in hearing and fingerprints were rapidly overtaken by a digital DSP core with an analog front end to translate the real world. Why won't this happen with cameras too? The only difference I can see is the complexity of visual information. How does the Mead solution improve on the actual sensor methodology to detect the light photons? I think this may be one of the main problems with present digital technology.

To: George Gilder who wrote (32272)	6/2/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: Bob A Louie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

<Richard Lyon, chief scientist of Foveon, credits that smooth work to system integration. "Instead of retrofitting a film camera for digital chips, we rethought the whole system and redesigned every part: optics, sensors, hardware, software, user interface." > <A product should hit the market by year-end in the $10,000-to-$30,000 range> <"We don't ever want to sell $100 cameras," > This doesn't sound like an "Intel" strategy. Seems like Foveon wants to be in the camera business, not the chip business.