Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/03
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Nick
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From: mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 3 October, 2006 4:21:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?
kodak did for a while, it was a 760m (nikon f5 based) monochrome only.
short lived, highly sought after, rarely shows up in ebay
On 10/2/06, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Does anyone make a camera suitable sensor that is B&W only?
>
> Ric
>
>
> On Oct 2, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Christopher Williams wrote:
>
> > This discussion has gone on for what, 4 weeks now?
> >
> > RAW is RAW, BW is BW. One camera for color, one for BW. I'm for it.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tina Manley"
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?
> >
> >
> >> I don't understand why anybody would want a B&W version over a RAW
> >> version. RAW is the negative. You can develop it any way you
> >> want. Once it's been developed as B&W, you can't redevelop it for
> >> highlights or shadows or anything else. Why would you want
> >> that? RAW has all of the information that the camera captures. B&W
> >> only would throw away most of this information. Are you going to
> >> depend on the camera software to develop the negative for you? It
> >> doesn't make sense to make a B&W only camera!
> >>
> >> Tina
> >
> >
> >
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