To me, it seems that the subject line is just as "confusing " as this artist's painting is ;-) It would seem that she is not "eliminating 3D" but, rather, introducing *so much* "local 3D" that the vie

Well, the phone,or dslr, these days, can deduce a LOT about a scene, much more than the "grey point" of light meters of 'my day' ;-) , so that one has a relatively good chance of not having breh snow

Hi John; What I am being forced to do, is to install a virtual machine on my new mac, and run os 10.5.xx in that, to allow me to run older software… if the install was PPC-only, I have started looking

Denton: But the physics of lenses will still limit the available resolution at the image plane... barry

The 3 MP Foveon is a better comparison to a 6 MP Bayer matrix sensor, which really has only 3MP Green, 1.25 MO ble/red... the 6MP full-colour is interpolated.

Assuming that folks will still be using some means of snapping a picture, imagine the number of pixels available in a point-and-shoot in 10 years, let alone...and it will be awfully easy to use one of

Andrew: I don't know of ANY "digital" displays...if it gets to our eyes, it seems to me that it must have been converted to analog somewhere along the way! And, it got there through CLUT's, Gamma adju

Good explanation, David! Current research is suggesting that seven carefully-selected filters are the minimum for "museum-quality" imaging, and that sixteen filters give a good enough result that it's

Chris: Sure enough, I didn't suggest that you _would not_ make a digital backup, I merely made the modest proposal that the film "backup" would be less prone to technology "slip", and requires almost

the "illumination source" is a monochromator, not an illuminant the colour absorbed doesn't have anything at all to do with the "color you're putting through"... a filter simply transmits, absorbs or

Dear Richard Chang, who wrote, and I respectfully respond: I seem to be confused... isn't the title of the list "color theory"? Believe what you will, or not... Really? gee, what's that? ...I do seem

David: indeed, I think that this is quite appropriate for a "color theory" list... As mentioned in my previous post, if you have a well-"profiled" sensor, and a known illuminator spectra, you have a s

Richard Chang said: I, for one, would certainly like to have such information available to me, for any camera system that I would use; it's equivalent to the sensitometry information for film. Richard

As someone whose primary business is technology, I have far less confidence in its longevity and reliability than many...in my short span of years, I've seen 1/2" tape, 8" floppies, 5-1/4", 3-1/2", CD

Dear Andrew, et al... Well, first point, I was talking about digital output, not an analog dupe. Point two, I also suggested inclusion of the appropriate colour check chart Point three - it's more lik

If you REALLY want a reference, output to film, which you can be sure will be viewable, without ANY profile, or with a built-in colour-checker pattern...Smithsonian says up to 100 years for modern tra

And, I don't see that they're talking about giving us a price reduction for helping them save the purported $700 Million in losses... In short, _we_ get to take a lot of hassle to, _possibly_, reduce