Quote Originally Posted by Daniel Browning
It would take a *major* breakthrough...to achieve a non-Foveon method of 3-color co-sited sampling within each pixel.

Nah. All it takes is subjects that don't move.


The Zeiss AxioCams on several of my microscopes use co-site sampling to eliminate the need for color interpolation - they move the Bayer mask twice during acquisition, so each pixel captures a separate R G B image. Furthermore, they use 'microscanning' - translating the sensor itself in a 2x2 or 3x3 sub-pixel array to increase resolution by moving the photosensitive portion of each pixel around within the area of that pixel (no microlenses on the sensor). So, that simple 1.4 MP 2/3" Sony CCD sensor can generate a 13 MP, non color-interpolated 14-bit image (of course, it takes 27 separate exposures to do so...).