Digital BW, The Print

Truman,

I DO *think* about it...quite often.  It's been a "pet" project of mine to
do for quite a few years now, but I've been just too busy to really put any
time into it.  I went as far as having a full frame 6cm x 6cm sensor design
specified (6k x 6k sensor elements) and quoted.  It wasn't *that* cost
prohibitive, though, in all honesty, I doubt that I'd make any money on
it...I really just wanted one for my self ;-)

Regards,

Austin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Truman Prevatt [mailto:tprevatt@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:48 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Digital B&W Camera [Was: Good camera for
> B&W]
>
>
> But just thing of it -
>
> a. higher sensivity (all the sensor elements would see all the light)
> b. true resolution not some trumped up estimate based on interpolation
> c. less noise at the same ISO (see a. )
> d. more artistic control through the use of filters
> e. much less in camera S/W and processor complexity
> f.. fewer knock down drag out fist fights on the forum over RGB to B&W
> conversion ;-).
>
> Truman
>
>
> Austin Franklin wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
>
>
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