September 26, 2006 - 08.30 GMT Foveon announces its 14.1 megapixel X3 dSLR image sensor, the highest resolution X3 sensor available. Foveon's X3 image sensors stacks red, green and blue pixels vertically, increasing the information density of the recorded image while simultaneously eliminating the color sampling artifacts found with other image sensors. The new sensor packs 14.1 million pixels into an array of 2652 x 1768 x 3 pixels with an active image area of 20.69 x 13.79 mm. The sensor can be read out at speeds up to 5 frames per second...More
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