Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re: B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Oct 3 08:00:08 2006

Nick - Are you sure it actually appeared? Or was there just talk and
avertising materials.


On 10/3/06 4:14 AM, "Nick Roberts" <nickbroberts@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> There was a Canon-bodied version as well.
> 
> Nick
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 October, 2006 4:21:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?
> 
> 
> kodak did for a while, it was a 760m (nikon f5 based) monochrome only.
> short lived, highly sought after, rarely shows up in ebay
> 
> On 10/2/06, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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