Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Does anyone make a camera suitable sensor that is B&W only? Ric On Oct 2, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Christopher Williams wrote: > This discussion has gone on for what, 4 weeks now? > > RAW is RAW, BW is BW. One camera for color, one for BW. I'm for it. > > Chris > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tina Manley" > Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this? > > >> I don't understand why anybody would want a B&W version over a RAW >> version. RAW is the negative. You can develop it any way you >> want. Once it's been developed as B&W, you can't redevelop it for >> highlights or shadows or anything else. Why would you want >> that? RAW has all of the information that the camera captures. B&W >> only would throw away most of this information. Are you going to >> depend on the camera software to develop the negative for you? It >> doesn't make sense to make a B&W only camera! >> >> Tina > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information