Finally, a Foveon based Digital Video camera
This single chip camera should give excellent 3 CCD like results...
http://www.alt-vision.com/HVDUO-5M.html 640x480 30 FPS 1420 x 1064 7 FPS It doesn't have the frame rate for HD, but SD results would give great uncompressed video output. Pity it's not USB2 or FW800 interface. No idea on cost yet. |
The resolution can barely pass for SD and the thing is using a
rolling shutter which is another thing you basically don't want (especially without motion blur). Anyone know what the price of this thing would be? |
I think when this sensor technology was first announced last fall they were tossing around $800 US for just the sensor in production amounts. They hoped they could integrate more frame storage buffering and DV compression on-chip later, but... that's one heck of a large chip already! 2/3 inch active area is a huge amount of silicon, so unless they can shrink to smaller geometry, the price won't fall much or fast.
Edit - Erk. I lost a year. It was about two years ago I first read about this tech. Sorry. I see from google there's some still Foveon cameras going for about $1,100 US. |
depending on what range and pixel sizes you could use with this thing you should be able to get 720 x 540 at 24 fps. The total number of pixels to calculate per second falls between the 640 x 480 x 30 and the 1420 x 1064 x 7.
With this you could get an SD video by scaling the 720 x 540 down to 720 x 480. |
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