Digital BW, The Print

> From: Wendel White [mailto:wendel@...]
>
> Does anyone know why we don't have a setting in our digital camera's that
> would make the senor measure only luminosity? Am I wrong to think that for
> B&W imaging that would be a very smooth, noise free image?
> Couldn't that be
> a program feature? BTW I don't mean the feature in some cameras that
> converts the images to B&W as an effect, but to genuinely turn off the
> color.

Because the individual sensors have color filters over them. You can't just
"turn them off."

Besides, you can often get useful aesthetic effects by controlling how the
colors are blended after the fact.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...