Nikon Watch

Several readers have pointed this out and I saw it this morning on DPreview.

Google has a nicer formatted version here.

But apparently this is the US version of a patent filed in Japan in ‘02. I’m better though, that we’re not going to see this anytime soon, I’d eat a potato (that’s as far as I’m going…) if this is actually in a camera this year.

I believe I first heard about the Foveon in ‘98 or ‘97 and we didn’t see it in a camera for several years after that. But this appears to be a non-foveon-type of sensor- it looks like the light comes in through the microlens and then is bounced around to 3 actual light sensors which are then tuned (filtered?) to be sensitive to RGB. Whereas, from what I recall, the Foveon actually lets the light penetrate the silicon to various levels where the values are then read out.

I’m with others on guessing this would be pretty hard (expensive) to manufacture- more expensive than the more conventional ways of getting to a higher image quality/pixel count. So I’m guessing it’s going to be quite a while, if ever.

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