Digital BW, The Print

> What I took from my question to Austin (Horses Mouth, about a week ago) is
> that these one shot cameras interpolate color, not detail.

Yes and no...

> As you say "A red sensor produces, via interpolation an RGB
> pixel." That is
> true for color mode, but as far as detail is concerned it doesn't care if
> it's captured by an R, G, or B, sensor, and it only takes one color of
> information to make detail. The depth of tone of that pixel may be differ
> depending on which sensor records it, but a true pixel worth of detail
> (let's call it a gray pixel) will be recorded.

Well, yes and no...each sensor definitely gets unique data, but as far as it
being actual "grayscale" data, not really.  It's just like putting a
red/green/blue filter over your film camera, it may or may not "see" things.

> Thus, for grayscale, the number of sensors the camera has IS the amount of
> detail it records (raw) - no interpolation is necessary.

Well....not really...it still has to interpolate the "average" intensity
across colored sensors...

Austin