Digital BW, The Print

> From: tvalleau [mailto:tracy@...]
>
> Oh, my gosh! I've had this S2 Pro for years now, and it does
> color???!!!   :-)
>
> Of course it's not... but it offers a B&W mode...

Lots of color cameras do. The original question, I think, was about the
possibility of a true B&W camera, that didn't sacrifice sharpness by using a
Bayer pattern filter for color. In most digital cameras, each pixel sensor
is either red, green or blue, and the raw converter interpolates to fill in
the other two colors for each pixel. The result isn't as sharp as a sensor
that has R+G+B sensors in each pixel, or for B&W a monochrome sensor in each
pixel.

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