Capturing An Image

However, with the price of production so right, developers continued to work with CMOS technology. And although the quality improved somewhat, the stigma remained.

One week before Photokina—the world's fair of image capture, held in Cologne, Germany, last month—Foveon made an announcement that challenges the CMOS stigma. The company has produced a 16.8 mega-pixel CMOS sensor and, Zarakov reports, has shown that it can yield an image eight-feet high, with quality to rival film.