For event oriented snapshots I usually go for black and white only. If it meant that it was faster and had better low-light quality, i might consider a black and white digital.
When using my Lumix LX3, and I have set it to black and white, I found out, that the RAW files are still color files! This is not so great. I want the RAW files black and white too. Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Mar 17, 2012 12:37 "Toralf Lund" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/15/12 17:07, Darren Addy wrote: > > Before you answer: What if it was a Leica? > > http://www.petapixel.com/2012/03/15/leicas-upcoming-m-series-camera- > > may-have-a-bw-sensor/ > Since everyone seems to say "no", I'll try "yes". I might not want > this > as my only or "regular" camera, but I still think the idea is > interesting. Yes, a colour sensor is probably more flexible in many > ways > even if you want to produce B&W, but there are still some limitations > to > the options you have. You can't really select to have no filtering at > all, or avoid having some of the pixel data filtered by the "wrong" > filter... As long as you have a "pattern" sensor, I mean - the > situation > would be quite different if someone made a *really good* camera that > would capture full colour at all sites... > > And of course, everyone knows that shooting colour with a Leica is > plain > heresy. If they don't release a B&W sensor, they should at least have > a > software limit, so that only different kinds of B&W conversions would > be > allowed for the output data ;-) > > - Toralf > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
