Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The monochrom conversion is "only" $1000, the price of a Leica lenscap ;-) Worth it? who knows. fyi, Monochrom (the original) still fetches about $3500-$4500 As for films, yea, I shoot a lot of those ;-) Paul, by pulling off the color filter, it *could* increase the apparent resolution. Definitely not 4x, but not insignificant. On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 9:39 AM Paul Roark via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Is the only advantage of pulling off the color filter layer of the sensor > (assuming focus is kept flat via some neutral replacement) increasing the > speed/ISO of the camera? > > I was wondering if (and doubting that) any company was able to separate the > individual sensor elements and quadruple the resolution. > > Paul > www.PaulRoark.com > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 7:59 PM Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Paul, the Sony A7 conversion I am aware of is the site that Jayanyand > > referenced: > > https://www.monochromeimaging.com/ > > > > ... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard http://imagecraft.com JumpStart C Tools for Atmel AVR and Cortex-M, The Better Alternative