[Jeff @ Sep 26th 2006 1:34PM]

I'm a big fan of the Foveon, but they really need to get it up beyond 4.7 megapixels to make any inroads in the market. I understand and agree that all else being equal, the Foveon producers superior color accuracy and detail. But the brute force approach of other manufacturers has so far proven pretty effective - Canon's and Nikon's sensors produce color almost as accurate as the Foveon but with greater detail (I've seen the comparison tests). I mean the bottom line is that it *is* the sensor that's the limiting factor in detail in most SLR's, so you want as many megapixels as you can get. (No, there's not much difference between, say, 8 and 10mp... but between 4.7mp and 10? Yes, there is a difference.)

The Foveon sensor still produces much better results than a standard sensor of that pixel size, and it does have somewhat better color accuracy. But until they get the output pixel numbers up to being even close to other manufacturers, you can't make an argument that the Foveon is the overall better choice. In some ways it is, in others it isn't. You need to look at the test results and determine what's most important to you, because there are tradeoffs.