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It is not opinion, it is fact. No AA-filter means fake detail and false sharpness. Foveon sensors do not have AA-filters. Ergo: fake detail and false sharpness. The bullshit crap from Sigma/Foveon about how they do not need AA-filters because of whatever is just that, bullshit crap.

Calling Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem "bullshit" is rich, it is a very well established theorem. That some people get impressed by the fake sharpness due to aliasing, is fine.

Don't call your opinion fact: The picture recording technique of a sensor is a rasterizing of reality, analogue structures which become transferred into 0 and 1, rather simplified. Sigma/Foveon does not put another step (actullay two extra artifical steps, softening and re-sharpening) in between, which most Bayer sensors have just to make the green blue green red pattern less visible.

The only faking part is the Bayer aspect, while Foveon takes reality as real as possible (for a digital sensor).

I also don't know any of Terry Pratchett's picture painting gnomes, who really paint - all printers use the same nozzle patterns and the ink just flows together, no matter if you put a fake mushy AntiAliasing filter in between or not.

You constantly look through a softented array of pixels and call the lack of the softening part "fake sharpness", that's rather bold and pretty stupid - on the contrary, there's no need to add extra sharpness like all the RAW converters do for Bayer pattern pictures. the softening AA filter leads to two extra loops - make the pixel structure melt and then re-sharpen it again, to regain some details. That's the real fake part! Not the Foveon sensor.

And as for Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem: That was articulated decades ago the development of Foveon sensors. Your choice to stick with stone age theorems which adequately described a pattern with only two dimensions - because there was no third available at the time of the postulation.

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The key to the modern day photographic industry is good sales.......that quite simply excludes the foveon sensor!

If there were no Foveon sensors around, the Sigma Art lenses would not have become such outstanding optical instruments.