Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 6/16/2003 7:06:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:

> 2) Since color digicams receive only one color per pixel, and then
> interpolate, B&W conversions of these images are lower in resolution and
> higher in noise than would be true original B&W image captures.
> 

Not true for Scanbacks, Foveon I, Foveon II, or the Sigma SD-9 with the 
Foveon X3 chip, which does a darn good and sharp B&W, but not like Tech Pan 
(nothing else does that ).

Claude


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