Yeah, you would be stuck using physical colored filters instead of tweaking the B&W virtually in LR/PS. Like back in the bad ole days of B&W film. You only get that chance to get it right with the physical filters, lots of chances with the full Bayer filtered image.
That's a big negative. On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Gonz wrote: >> >> I would be just as interesting if not more interesting to me to have >> the Bayer filter removed (is that even possible?). That would make >> for a cool B&W camera. don't know if the software would support this >> kind of image though (in raw). > > > My understanding is that the Bayer filter is actually part of the sensor, > and can't be removed. It would gain you about 5dB in sensitivity, at the > loss of the ability to apply virtual color filters in post processing. > > I would be interested in seeing real-world comparisons between the Leica > monochrome only body, and the color equivalent. With modern sensors, my > suspicion is that there are very few situations where removing the Bayer > filter would give a noticeable improvement, and a lot of times when not > being able to tweak the contribution from the different channels in post > would be a big detriment. > > In short, by the time the dust settled, you would get better results for > less overall cost, just selling the K-3 buying an off the shelf K-1 and > converting to B&W in Post than you would converting the K-3. If you already > have the K-1, I can't think of any advantage you would have by removing the > Bayer on a K-3 for B&W. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
