Digital BW, The Print

Truman,

> 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.

There were a couple of Kodak digital cameras that were monochrome, but I
don't believe they went as high as 6M pixels.  The Leaf Lumina is a 6M pixel
(true 6M pixels, as it is a scanning camera), and does grayscale...but your
subjects have to stand very still ;-)  The images are superb from it.  I
also have a 7k scanning back for my Hasselblad, and in monochrome mode, the
images are nothing less than superb...but it's only good for studio work, as
it's a scanner.

I agree, I wish someone made their Bayer filters so they were removable.
The filters are separate from the actual sensor arrays, they are not
built-in to the sensor array, they are on top of it, and therefore *could*
be removed (or simply replaced with a neutral density filter) if someone
really wanted to make the effort...but the issue is the software wouldn't
know how to deal with it.

Regards,

Austin