Wrong. :) http://www.jtwastronomy.com/tutorials/debayer.html
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:29 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > For demosaicing(sp???) to work, the firmware has to take into account the > color filters over each photosite. If you could remover the Bayer filter, > (which I think is impossible, based on my knowledge of how it's applied), > the camera would need completely rewritten firmware, possibly even new > hardware in the image processing engine. The image with standard firmware > will be subtly off, now that didn't stop photographs in the past recording > some version of reality film ortho film, but the color and luminance values > will be off, and you won't get the advantage of the higher resolution since > the camera will still process the image to try to create a rgb image. > > > > On 1/9/2017 4:06 PM, 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). >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I forgot to mention that the 28-105 is arguably the sharpest kit lens >>> I've >>> ever used. I picked it up because I couldn't afford the 24-70, already >>> had >>> a tammy 28-75, and didn't have a weather proof standard range zoom. >>> >>> In decent light, I'm quite happy to leave it on my camera. I don't know >>> how >>> it compares, other than speed and cost with the 24-70. >>> >>> Also, when I got my K-1 I had a K-3 and a K-3II which made a nice pair >>> for >>> when I wanted to use two bodies. I held off on selling one, but these >>> days >>> only use one of them when I want to mount the 18-250 to have a small wide >>> range camera to carry around, I should do something with the K-3. One >>> option, and probably the smart one, would be to sell it. Another option >>> would be to have the IR block filter removed. >>> >>> This is a topic that comes up every now and then, and the list of shops >>> doing it seems to change on a year by year basis. Has anyone had the >>> conversion done lately? Who did it, are you happy with their work and >>> what >>> did it cost? >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
