I found this and thought is sounded interesting so I am wondering out loud here if it will be applied to digital camcorders (IE: Mini-DV) as well and if so does this affect how NLE's see and do color correction. Hmm....Billy Boy? Thoughts on this?
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Tokyo, July 16 (Jiji Press)--Sony Corp. said Wednesday it has developed a charge-coupled device featuring a four-color filter that enables digital cameras to reproduce colors closer to how they are perceived by the human eye.
Conventional three-color filter CCDs record colors by the intensity of each of three component colors--red, green and blue.
As the characteristics of the filters are different from those of human eyesight, the reproduced colors do not accurately correspond to those perceived with the human eye.
The new CCD adds an emerald filter to the conventional three-color filter in order to process and reproduce more natural-looking images.
Sony said it has also developed a new image processor that corresponds to the new filter CCD.
The new CCD will be installed in new digital cameras.
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Full SONY press release has more details and sample images.
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Tokyo, July 16 (Jiji Press)--Sony Corp. said Wednesday it has developed a charge-coupled device featuring a four-color filter that enables digital cameras to reproduce colors closer to how they are perceived by the human eye.
Conventional three-color filter CCDs record colors by the intensity of each of three component colors--red, green and blue.
As the characteristics of the filters are different from those of human eyesight, the reproduced colors do not accurately correspond to those perceived with the human eye.
The new CCD adds an emerald filter to the conventional three-color filter in order to process and reproduce more natural-looking images.
Sony said it has also developed a new image processor that corresponds to the new filter CCD.
The new CCD will be installed in new digital cameras.
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Full SONY press release has more details and sample images.