Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for clearing it up Mark. And what this means is that you can have RAW bw image. As to Lucien's post of that test...Very interesting. It suggests there could possibly be some truth to the rumor. Or it could suggest that people are simply taking the facts that there was/is a Kodak BW sensor, the fact that Kodak is working with Leica, and turned it into a camera. Time will tell. On 10/3/06 11:54 AM, "MARK DAVISON" <davison_m@msn.com> wrote: > B. D. Colen has mentioned: > > And the > idea, as I recall it, was that true RAW data is, in fact, gray scale data, > and that, as I believe Adam just noted, the sensor applies color to the RAW > data to get the color RAW image. > > As it stands this is a bit misleading. In a color sensor, each pixel has a > different color filter over it (from the Bayer array), so physically the > RAW > data in each pixel is from some particular color channel. It's like taking > color separation shots simultaneously. > > A pure black and white camera sensor would have no Bayer array of color > filters over the pixels, so each pixel would indeed record a truly B&W > image. > > Mark Davison > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information