Digital BW, The Print

PS: That experiment has been performed many times - always with the same 
results.

Truman Prevatt wrote:

>
> It is a very easy experiment to run and it has been run many times. Take
> a CDD without any color filter and measure an image. Measure it with
> three sensors one with red, green and blue filters. Now take the entire
> scene and minimize the error of the between a weighted combination of
> the R, G and B sensors and the output of the CCD without any color
> filter. There is a set of weights that minimize the error, but the error
> will not be zero. That is the information lost.
>
> Now does that make a difference to the observer - to some it will to
> some it won't.
>
> Truman


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We imitate our masters only because we are not yet masters ourselves, 
and only

because in doing so we learn the truth about what cannot be imitated.

 



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