Digital BW, The Print

This guy will perform major surgery on your camera for a fee.  
Apparently, he removes the bayer filter on the sensor and replaces the 
IR cut filter (in front of the sensor on a D30 and D60) with a #87 IR 
pass filter to leave you with an IR only B&W camera.  I would think 
that the filter replacement could also be with a neutral density 
filter, but I really don't know.  No firmware mods, so I'm not sure how 
you go about setting exposure, etc.
http://www.irdigital.net/index.html

Carl

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 12:05  PM, 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