On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > If the Leica rumor turns out to be real, perhaps they are implementing > the B&W-only limitation in software but using the kind of sensor Kodak > announced a few years ago with a non-Bayer pattern that sacrifices > some color sensitivity for greater luminance sensitivity . Here's the > DP Review article about it: > http://www.dpreview.com/news/2007/6/14/kodakhighsens
Mark, that article says: Kodak’s new sensor technology provides a significant increase in sensitivity to light when compared to current sensor designs. With this new technology, users will realize a 2x to 4x increase in sensitivity (from one to two photographic stops), which will improve performance when taking pictures under low light and reduce motion blur when imaging moving subjects. Which is exactly what I was postulating, though the pattern presented did something clever by only using half of the green pixels as panchromatic. That way they lose a little resolution in green, but get a lot more dynamic range, because if it clips in the clear sensor, then the data can be regained with the other three. Unfortunately, Godfrey just told us that it doesn't work, so it must not work. BTW, didn't Nikon used to have a B&W version of a sensor? How did that compare in performance to the color version. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
