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

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