John, > Oh yeah, to get full luminance information > from any "X" megapixel sensor, all the individual > pixels have to be wideband monochrome, (no bayer > filtering). I think kodak actually made one > like this at one time, I would love one, if it > was cheap and much higher resolution than > a same Mp color bayer one and I dont see why not.
damn, sounds like you are right (as always ;-)). I'd love to have a pocketable monochrome camera. When I need to use high ISO on my pocket cameras I'm switching to B&W mode anyway. But the quality of the output is not as good as it could be using a dedicated monochrome sensor. Cheers, Peter -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net