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

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Subject: [Leica] B&W Leica?
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:44:14 +1030
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If Leica really does this I am already there.

Marty


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
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>
> USA
>
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