Very neat. I have a love-hate relationship with a unique type of digital sensor called the Foveon X3, which needs a particular (very sluggish and limited capability) software made by Sigma to convert the RAWs. Recently I have been using AI to create a converter that processes the RAWs in a similar fashion with some improvements.
This is one of those cases where its a means-to-an-end (I just want to take more photos without being bogged down) and less of a project for me to learn how to reverse-engineer and design signal processing pipelines. I am very grateful for what recent models are enabling me to do.
Remind us what the Foveon sensor's quirk was? Something in the subpixel layout as I recall. A non-bayer pattern since abandoned and largely unsupported, yet effective somehow. But maybe I'm imagining this.
Hey Devin! There's a blog called Leicaphilia written by a—sadly now passed—photographer named Timothy Vanderweert who I would argue was actually more attached to the Sigma Foveon than he was to the Leica. Kind of ironic.
I think you'd like the blog in general, but the Foveon sensor posts are definitely worth reading if you're curious about it: <a href="https://leicaphilia.com/?s=Foveon" rel="nofollow">https://leicaphilia.com/?s=Foveon
Also, I think this entry from a friend of his about his photographic monograph, Car Sick, is worth reading: <a href="https://leicaphilia.com/car-sick-the-view-from-the-man-on-the-street/" rel="nofollow">https://leicaphilia.com/car-sick-the-view-from-the-man-on-th... — happy to lend it to you if you ever want to see it firsthand.
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This is one of those cases where its a means-to-an-end (I just want to take more photos without being bogged down) and less of a project for me to learn how to reverse-engineer and design signal processing pipelines. I am very grateful for what recent models are enabling me to do.
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I think you'd like the blog in general, but the Foveon sensor posts are definitely worth reading if you're curious about it: <a href="https://leicaphilia.com/?s=Foveon" rel="nofollow">https://leicaphilia.com/?s=Foveon
Also, I think this entry from a friend of his about his photographic monograph, Car Sick, is worth reading: <a href="https://leicaphilia.com/car-sick-the-view-from-the-man-on-the-street/" rel="nofollow">https://leicaphilia.com/car-sick-the-view-from-the-man-on-th... — happy to lend it to you if you ever want to see it firsthand.
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