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Just seen that Bryce Bayer who invented the Bayer filter has died.
Without him it would have been a different image sensor that we would be using today.
I think that we owe a huge debt of gratitude to him.
It says he was 83, and his filter was patented in 1976. I didn't realise both he and the filter were that old. I guess the association tends to be with modern cameras.
Quite an achievement given the technology available in the mid seventies.
Kodak really didnt maximise the patent as it was a 25 year patent expiry so by 2001 it was expired but huge consumer uptake of digital didnt come until just on or after this point in time. I had a Nikon Coolpix 900 in 1998 but still used film until I got my Nikon D1 in October 1999.
jk wrote: Kodak really didnt maximise the patent as it was a 25 year patent expiry so by 2001 it was expired but huge consumer uptake of digital didnt come until just on or after this point in time. I had a Nikon Coolpix 900 in 1998 but still used film until I got my Nikon D1 in October 1999.
I often wonder what might have been if Kodak had done better, and if makes like Agfa and Yasica had got there too. Sad to see 'em go really.
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