Digital BW, The Print

Hi Jerry,

Well, a dedicated B&W digital camera will give you 4x real resolution over a
color conversion.  That, in and of it self, is worth it if you are really
into shooting B&W, which I am.

If the A/Ds are 12 bits, that is FAR more than you need to get any visible
tonality you can imagine.  8 bits would be a problem, but 12+ no.

I scan B&W in B&W (with the Leafscan), and the tonality I get from it is
superb, so I have no doubt that 12 bit+ grayscale is more than sufficient to
superbly give you any tonality you want.

I'd LOVE a full frame one shot B&W back for my Hasselblad, as well as a
Contax D1 that's B&W...

Austin


> Lorie, this is true, but you also lose the incredible convenience of
> having built in red, green, and blue filters. It's awful nice to be able
> to use the channel mixer in photoshop to get the exact tones you want.
> And it's even nicer that you can use these filters with no increase in
> aperture or decrease in shutter speeds!
>
> Jerry
>
> londuck wrote:
> >
> > Jerry,
> >
> > Everyone determines their own particular price/feature scheme, but a
> > 6 MP B&W camera using a dedicated B&W CCD would be superior to the
> > exact same camera with a 6MP Color CCD (RGB) used in grayscale mode.