Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/14

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Subject: [Leica] B&W Leica?
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:09:00 -0500
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:27 PM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net <
wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:


> To get B&W from an RGB digital camera you throw away 2/3 of the image data.
> A B&W-only camera could be much more sensitive (higher ISO) and higher
> resolution.



Um, if you change the mode to BW, that is true, but if you simply
desaturate the image, the file stays the same size, and I presume all the
information remains.




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Sonny
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