> No more will photographers or even ordinary people have to fumble with aperture size and exposure length.
This is a "computer scientists" understanding of photography, and this phrase alone can even be seen as "dangerous" by photographers. There's more to aperture size and exposure length than "how much light reaches the sensor", like focus, depth of field, motion blur and bokeh, to name a few, that is not aknowledged by that understanding. The technology is good, but it won't change the way photographers deal with photography, at best, it will give them a better tool to work with.
I also wonder how much impact this could have. Foveon Inc. had developed a great sensor that was going to be revolutionary, about 20 years ago. Today only Sigma uses it, and the UX is so bad in those cameras that the (very good) technology they had their hands on never got a chance to shine.
Also, is this implementation very different from having a 16-bit ADC in normal sensors? The end results would be the same: higher dynamic range. And the increase in bits seems a lot closer (because it would mean little changes to the current manufacture processes) than a whole new type of sensor being use in cameras.
This is a "computer scientists" understanding of photography, and this phrase alone can even be seen as "dangerous" by photographers. There's more to aperture size and exposure length than "how much light reaches the sensor", like focus, depth of field, motion blur and bokeh, to name a few, that is not aknowledged by that understanding. The technology is good, but it won't change the way photographers deal with photography, at best, it will give them a better tool to work with.
I also wonder how much impact this could have. Foveon Inc. had developed a great sensor that was going to be revolutionary, about 20 years ago. Today only Sigma uses it, and the UX is so bad in those cameras that the (very good) technology they had their hands on never got a chance to shine.
Also, is this implementation very different from having a 16-bit ADC in normal sensors? The end results would be the same: higher dynamic range. And the increase in bits seems a lot closer (because it would mean little changes to the current manufacture processes) than a whole new type of sensor being use in cameras.