Foveon and Bayer goes shopping:)

My way of explaining foveon to a photo-muggle would be to take 3 pieces pieces of coloured transparancy; green, red, blue and then show:

Colours next to each other: normal camera
(not even mentioning the term bayer or that there are actually 4)

Colours on top of each other: sigma
(not mentioning the term foveon)

Now to explain the mp:

Sigma: the real colour of the stack
(you can see through it!)

Normal camera: average of each colour in each, looking at the neighbours and making 3 times too many pixels that are guesses

Then the real killer after getting the above:
(assuming a normal beginnger only uses jpg, not even mentioning the term raw)

On this memory card you can have 300 pictures with a normal camera, or 1000 pictures with the sigma, with the same quality*

Then show him (or her) a print of each without telling which is which;)

- as shown in this danish test: http://media.ncom.dk/index.php/video/id=643

This is oversimplifying in the same way as you can say an atom is a particle with a nucleus of positive protons circled by negative electrons - but hey, thats how i learned it at school (plus neurons though) and it works nicely until university as few people need to know about quarks, spin, electron possibility fields, antimatter etc

So, yes there are differences but they are minimal and confusing to the uninitiated, but quality can be understood by all if explained simply and presented physically:)

Photo-freedom: waiting for Picasa

After using picasa for af few years & now having a mac i miss picasa severely, having tried iphoto, aperture, lightroom, lightzone, shoebox, qimage and a few others i totally gave up

None of them have the simple listing all photos and allowing me to do changes that can be saved - the simplicity of picasa is the key, i allready have all my photos in folders and need to see them all, sort them and edit, saving and overwriting my originals (they are not holy)

I truly wonder why it has been made so complicated with all the import and keeping originals untouched - picasa saves them in a nice folder called originals and lets me work on so i do not get tied to the program

Because this is the thing; using iphoto, aperture or lightroom all your changes and metadata will stick there, and the only way to get some of it out is to export to a new folder, but how about your folder structure and does it resave those which have not been changed? You definately loose your ratings and what if you want to keep doing a few changes here and there or move the file to another folder?

Nothing compares to picasa, on any system i have seen, and yes, it could be nice with curves and histogram adjustments, but those are minimal benefits to the lack of managing the photo library, and even though iphoto can replace the name with the titles in a desperate way to keep them, the keywords doesn't even work if they are written with danish letters!

Oh and don't even try to move or rotate a file in another program if it has been imported to iphoto (not even if you leave it where it was) - then if youre lucky you only have to rebuild the entire iphoto library, if youre unlucky, well, too bad...

My iphoto library is the the trash bin...