Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., To be more specific, at last year's LHSA in SF, Stefan, from Leica, after describing the then as yet unnamed M8, asked the audience how many would buy a mono-chrome only version with 3x the resolution, if that were to be produced. Dumbfounded, half the audience raised their hands. That was a year ago, so I would imagine that the Wetzlar LHSA attendees got much more detailed info in the last few days. Tom On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:05 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > Thanks for clearing it up Mark. And what this means is that you can > have > RAW bw image. > > As to Lucien's post of that test...Very interesting. It suggests > there could > possibly be some truth to the rumor. Or it could suggest that > people are > simply taking the facts that there was/is a Kodak BW sensor, the > fact that > Kodak is working with Leica, and turned it into a camera. Time will > tell. > > > On 10/3/06 11:54 AM, "MARK DAVISON" <davison_m@msn.com> wrote: > >> B. D. Colen has mentioned: >> >> And the >> idea, as I recall it, was that true RAW data is, in fact, gray >> scale data, >> and that, as I believe Adam just noted, the sensor applies color >> to the RAW >> data to get the color RAW image. >> >> As it stands this is a bit misleading. In a color sensor, each >> pixel has a >> different color filter over it (from the Bayer array), so >> physically the RAW >> data in each pixel is from some particular color channel. It's >> like taking >> color separation shots simultaneously. >> >> A pure black and white camera sensor would have no Bayer array of >> color >> filters over the pixels, so each pixel would indeed record a truly >> B&W >> image. >> >> Mark Davison >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information