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Let's digress.

I find Foveon's three-deep sensor a solution to color capturing as elegant in its simplicity as Einstein's theory (and much more comprehensible). How can a technology so beautifully wrought -- and the comments here certainly echo that appreciation -- be "obsolete"? More significantly, how can it have failed so miserably to command the market against these other, intellectually cruder schemes?

When Foveon first hyped its CCD or CMOS or whatever it is (I'm not a tekkie), it boasted that it would render film obsolete with a digital camera of resolution and color fidelity comparable to film at the same cost as film cameras. I still wait, and long, for Foveon to announce that it has achieved the full potential of its technology by offering a camera capturing stunningly superior images at a fraction of the cost of Nikon, Canon, Fuji, Kodak and the rest. Where did it fail? By contracting with Sigma? And how do I free myself from my addiction to this irresistable vision?