Digital BW, The Print

There are several kinds of scanning backs!

Some use multiple passes, and so have "genuine RGB" pixels at the cost of not 
being able to shoot moving subjects.

Others have single-shot sensors that are RGBG (or sometimes CMYG), and use 
colour interpolation.


On Thursday 17 Jan 2002 10:52 am, qdfb wrote:
> Hmm, that raises an interesting point.  A scanning back operates like
> a film scanner, with seperate RGB sensors scanning the image.  I have
> not thought about this before, but I assume this means that there is
> therefore no interpolation with a scanning camera back, so its
> resolution should be regarded as 3 times that of an equivalent single
> shot sensor.  Would that be right?
>
> Bit OT, but I'd be interested in the answer :-)