Digital BW, The Print

Well thanks for the reply - it is a shame. I certainly understand that it
would be a small market but it would be nice. I would pay extra to have an
EOS 1Ds-BW or an EOS 10D-BW

Wendel

 

> From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@...>
> 
> The sensors only measure intensity. To get color color filters are
> overlayed over the sensor and data processing is used to fill in the
> colors between the pixels of the same color. To measure full spectral
> intensity you would have to remove the filter array.
> 
> However, wouldn't it be nice if someone made a B&W digitical camera -
> then 6 megapixesls would rally be six megapixels. The processing would
> be minized since you would not need to worry much about white balance
> (could use a filter to do that).  A true B&W digital camera.
> 
> Truman
>