Foveon Sensor Fun

Every now and then I take an old camera for a walk. Well, it hasn’t any legs of its own. Today I took out one of my old Signa cameras. These are interesting because they use a Foveon sensor. Rather than having adjacent red, green and blue receptors and using software to interpolate their values and come up with colours, the Foveon sensor stacks red, green and blue receptors on top of each other. This means that the primary colour intensity values all come from the same place and it should make for a more accurate image. They do still look rather good.