Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, about two years ago Kodak announced a "black and white" only version of the 14whatever...It was going to produce 18 mg grayscale images, and the person I talked to in Kodak pro services said that the images had more tonal range than film, and blah blah blah..Well, the camera was announced, was supposedly released...and I've never seen one anywhere...;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Feli di Giorgio Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:47 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital M - was Leica to Restructure, Cut Staff On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 20:09, Peter Klein wrote: > Now here's a real crazy idea. What about a black-and-white imager? > No > color microfilters, no interpolation, none of this Bayer pattern > stuff. Less artifacting. A pixel is a pixel is a pixel. That could > deliver even greater image quality than a color imager of the same > size. This probably wouldn't fly in today's market, but what a possibility! Of course it would have to have a Tri-X-D76 look up table and grainer mode... feli - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - --- Feli di Giorgio Visual Effects Supervisor "Hostage" creocollective - feli@creocollective.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html