Foveon

new imaging tech, very promising, lovely pix

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sigmasd9/

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02092001sigmasd9price.asp

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/SD9/SD9PICSA.HTM

http://www.foto-erhardt.de/modules.php?name=Testbilder&d_op=viewdownload&cid=67

Please add a space at the end of each line when posting multiple links - the links are all interpreted as one line in the "view recent posts" area and it messes up the display.

Last year I suggested to one of the Lumileds engineers that they use this to build multi-layer white output LEDs. The idea is to do without the 30% loss of output that results from using phosphor. They could also free themselves from all the other phosphor tyrannies.

By stacking the layers, the beam is more uniform.

The parts would be laser trimmed and then use active feedback to maintain their tint integrity over their lifetime.

He seemed interested and asked for the foveon website.

But I really think he thought I was nuts...

Peter Gransee

Cool tech. Very cool. Thanks.