William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Toralf Lund" Subject: Re: SV: The film is dead
Herb Chong wrote:
they tried with the 760m, as Rob said. demand was so low and there were quality problems with the ones that were produced.
You may then argue that demand was low because of the quality problems, and not the design or concept itself, and thus the idea hasn't really been tried out in a reasonable manner.
I think it would be a foolish argument.
With the price of DSLR's, most people are going to want one that shoots colour, rather than one that is limited to monochrome.
Add to that the less than idal options available to print B&W from digital, and the ability to desaturate colour images in editing programs, and I don't really see a high end mono only digital as being a demand item.
No, I don't think so either. Or, it would at least have to some kind of setup where the same camera could use B&W *and* colour sensors. But I guess the situation might be somewhat different in a few years' time when (I'm assuming) the price of a DSLR has dropped to a fraction of what it is today.
OTOH, *maybe* there could be niche markets that would justify the development of such a camera, at least if it may be done at a low cost via updates of existing models, even though the demand wouldn't be very high. I've been wondering why for instance the press doesn't want B&W cameras (or maybe they really do?). But perhaps the newspaper prints have such low quality anyway that using somewhat sub-optimal image data doesn't make a difference, and of course, you do see an increasing amount of colour photos in the papers...
William Robb
