Digital BW, The Print

From: "C D Tobie
> Yes, but by going for the high rez design, the other resolutions are 
> compromised in the sensitivity they could have had; they can still profit 
> from the pixel averaging in terms of color, but the dynamic range, 
> sensitivity, and low noise that could have been gained by larger sensors 
> is pretty much lost; a bit of noise reduction may be gained in 
> downsampling, but the other advantages are simply lost. Thats part of the 
> compromise, the same way that the compromise of making it a color camera 
> loses detail that could have been gained for B&W if it were a B&W-only 
> camera.


I agree, but the camera that has all that is the D4. It would have been very 
silly of Nikon to duplicate the D4 in a smaller body at half the price, and 
bring it out at the same time as the D4!

The D700 that duplicated the D3 in a smaller body at half the price was 
brought out a year AFTER the D3, so it did not reduce the initial sales of 
the D3.

So we might get a smaller, cheaper D4 in a years time.

Bob Frost