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RE: [Digital BW] Shooting Digitally, for Austin

2002-01-19 by Tim Spragens

Austin,

can you explain why more companies aren't using CMYK filters instead 
of RGBG for single-chip cameras? Seems like there would be less light 
loss, and it would avoid the redundant G.

Tim


> The other issue that comes into play, is these one shot cameras aren't
> really true pixels...they interpolate the color data, which makes them
> really require 4x the number of sensors to give you TRUE color data. 
--
Tim Spragens
http://www.borderless-photos.com
&
http://www.borderless-photos.de

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