Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R8/R9 Digital Back announced
From: Ernest Nitka <enitka@twcny.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:04:18 -0400

Hey - I'll bite - I haven't had anyone flame or dump on me in 
about....oh 18 hours.

Tell me about Bayer filters and why they degrade resolution.  Or point 
me to web links that I can read .

There - let the giggling begin.

ernie nitka

On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 08:01 PM, Karen Nakamura wrote:

>>
>> How technical is technical?  Is "shutter button" a technical term?  
>> It may
>> surprise you, Eric, but there are a LOT of people who know what a 
>> Bayer
>> pattern sensor is...and there are a lot of web sites that give good
>> descriptions/tutorials of this...so I think you are selling a lot of 
>> people
>> short.  Plus, it's necessary to the understanding of why the images 
>> you get
>> from these sensors are NOT what some people think they are.
>
> Just to chip into a most enjoyable flame war, I think most people who 
> read the camera reviews on DPReview.com and other sites know what a 
> Bayer pattern is and why  it means that a 8 megabyte file from a 
> digicam isn't the same as an 8 megabyte scan of a film negative. The 
> GRBG filter causes a lot of loss of resolution.
>
> It's about as technical as "reciprocity law failure" -- ie, something 
> that geeks would know *why* it happens, but that consummerate 
> photographers know occurs.
>
> Karen
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