dude, I think you must've missed the fact that this is SINGLE chip camera. dang.

it may be a single chip camera.. but you can buy 3 of these cameras for $9,000 or you can buy a single 3 chop HD camera for around $90,000 It just means that consumer HD cameras are comming in 2 years there will be single chip consumer cameras for $1,200 and 3 chip cameras for $3,000 You will be looking at that Panasonic camera you are drooling over and wonder what you ever saw in it. I think it is a huge step in the right direction for HD to succeed.. the next step is they have to get consumer recorders on the market and finalize the standard. so They can get the price of HDTV's down. me, I'm still holding my breath.. we have 5 years before all TV stations are supposed to stop their ntsc broadcast and all our televisions will be obsolete, yet they are still selling ntsc televisions with 5 years waurentees...hmmmmm

the brand new issue of WIRED is out and there is a short piece on the Foveon X3 imaging chip in there with a comparison shot from a 6-megapixel still camera versus the Foveon. The difference is night and day! The X3 is SO utterly amazingly better. Can't wait... supposedly it will be usable inside camcorders. Then maybe I'd buy a single-chip camera!

I was talking to my brother the other day and he was telling me about a new chip that works completely differently then the current chips.. apparently it works more like your eye.. he was all excited, you have to meet my brother to understand, but in his state of ubergeekdom he was saying how much better it is going to look.. like on a scale of multiple of thousands of times better, he was touting all the numbers, I was just agreeing with him.

sounds like maybe it is the foveon chip -- it uses analog + digital approach. the analog sensor part is what gives it the amazing detail because it does work more like your eye works.