jaapv
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J. Borger
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........... nice 2nd body for surejaapv said:
Gman
You're on Candid Camera
The likelihood of the B&W M8/M9? was being discussed at the LHSA meeting I attended in Wetzlar last month. I wouldn't think Leica would officially acknowledge such a product until the current M8 situation gets sorted out (and they sell many M8s?)
jeff
jeff
jlw
Rangefinder camera pedant
Even if there is a b&w M8 at some point, I doubt very much that it would be 33mp.
That particular pipe dream seemed to stem from the "rumor mill" poster's fundamental misunderstanding of how a digital sensor works. He assumed that the M8 contains three 10mp sensors -- one each for R, G and B -- so if you eliminated the color filters, you'd somehow have a 30+mp camera.
In fact, the M8 contains a single 10mp sensor; individual pixels of that sensor are filtered for R, G or B. The G and B values for each R-filtered pixel are estimated based on the adjacent pixels with G and B filters; likewise for the other colors.
Even with the filters removed, you'd still be getting only 10 mp of luminance data, which is what you need for b&w.
An M8 with no color filter mosaic would have slightly higher light sensitivity, but that would be its only advantage. (Even a b&w version would need some filtration anyway, to give its sensor something approximating panchromatic sensitivity, so the advantage might not be as great as you'd think.)
That particular pipe dream seemed to stem from the "rumor mill" poster's fundamental misunderstanding of how a digital sensor works. He assumed that the M8 contains three 10mp sensors -- one each for R, G and B -- so if you eliminated the color filters, you'd somehow have a 30+mp camera.
In fact, the M8 contains a single 10mp sensor; individual pixels of that sensor are filtered for R, G or B. The G and B values for each R-filtered pixel are estimated based on the adjacent pixels with G and B filters; likewise for the other colors.
Even with the filters removed, you'd still be getting only 10 mp of luminance data, which is what you need for b&w.
An M8 with no color filter mosaic would have slightly higher light sensitivity, but that would be its only advantage. (Even a b&w version would need some filtration anyway, to give its sensor something approximating panchromatic sensitivity, so the advantage might not be as great as you'd think.)