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Tuesday, February 12, 2002

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/technology/11FOVE.html

Digital Sensor Is Said to Match Quality of Film
By JOHN MARKOFF

If Carver Mead is right, photographic film is an endangered species. Dr. Mead, who is 67, was a pioneer of the modern computer chip industry in the 1970's. But he has never stopped inventing. And on Monday his Silicon Valley start-up, Foveon, plans to begin shipping a new type of digital image sensor that outside experts agree is the first to match or surpass the photographic capabilities of 35-millimeter film....

 


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