Digital BW, The Print

I've been waiting for someone to write an article like this one, as I do not
have the time.  Thanks for the link!  Now my job of explaining this has been
reduced to a simple link ;-)

Austin

> But in a typical digital camera there's a color filter placed
> over the chip
> such that your 4 pixel grid would be:
>
> [R][G]
> [G][B]
>
> ...so there's no way to take a pure grayscale image, because
> there's a color
> filter stuck on the chip. The camera can't not interpolate in greyscale
> mode, because the only data it's capable of capturing is alread
> filtered for
> color. See: http://www.foveon.com/interp.html
>
> -Jason