Higher resolution for having no AA filter. I'd personally prefer a HCB filter, but there you go.
B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Steven Desjardins > Sent: 18 March 2012 12:20 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Would a B&W ONLY digital camera appeal to you? > > My question: where is the advantage? Is there any way Leica could > develop a purely B&W sensor that had advantages that it wouldn't have > if it did color as well? > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Mark Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It has occurred to me that one of the stupid things about making a > > digital camera with a black-and-white-only sensor would be that it > > would be like buying a film camera that would only work with one kind > > of film. OK, you could have different sensitivity settings, but B&W > > films had their own sensitivity curves and reacted differently to > red, > > green and blue light. You could change things with filters, of > course, > > but those are not nearly flexible/versatile to make one film emulate > > the RGB sensitivity curves of another. > > > > In a digital camera you can emulate the looks of different B&W films > > to some extent by working with the individual RGB curves during raw > > processing, but the sensor has to capture individual RGB data in the > > first place - a B&W-only sensor wouldn't permit this so you'd be > > locked into one "look" forever. If Leica were to make a B&W-only > > camera, one way around this would be to use a color sensor and > > implement the B&W limitation in software. That seems a bit silly (not > > that some people wouldn't buy it anyway). > > > > If the Leica rumor turns out to be real, perhaps they are > implementing > > the B&W-only limitation in software but using the kind of sensor > Kodak > > announced a few years ago with a non-Bayer pattern that sacrifices > > some color sensitivity for greater luminance sensitivity . Here's the > > DP Review article about it: > > http://www.dpreview.com/news/2007/6/14/kodakhighsens > > > > > > -- > > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > 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.
