[Leica] Color vs B/W and Digital

[David Rodgers <drodgers@swiftnet.com>]

Austin,

Interesting. Are you referring to the Leafscan 35?

Seems to me color gets all the attention in digital. But what about b/w?

This may be faulty logic on my part, but I'll throw it out. The current 
commerically viable  pirosumer CCDs are capable of scanning 4000 dpi color. 
I assume this requires 4 sensors in a quad and not linear configuration 
(could be wrong but it seems that's the case when I looked at some CCD 
schematics a while back)

Does that mean someone could manufacture a greyscale scanner that scans at 
twice the resolution, or 8000 dpi? Or better yet, might someone write some 
different firmware or software that would allow current scanners to do 
that. Look what Jon Cone did for inkjet printing of greyscale images with 
Piezography with a custom driver.

Maybe the market for b/w just isn't that big. Further, I may be way off 
base with wishful thinking. But hey, the higher the resolution the scanner, 
the more shooting Leica matters.

Color and b/w photography are very different mediums IMHO. Yet color is 
getting all the attention!

Dave


>   My particular scanner actually
>scans B&W using a neutral density filter, NOT using RGB and converting to
>grayscale.

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