Digital BW, The Print

Aha! I didn't get that out of the question. 

Not sure, however, that a -single- channel of a RAW image would be any
-less sharp- than the Foveon(sp?) leaving aside the limitation on the
range of tones imposed the whatever color filter/channel is selected...

How about using sub-pixel adjustments for aligning the channels, if
necessary?

Cordially, 


Tracy


-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. DeRocco"
<pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: tvalleau [mailto:tracy@d...]
> >
> > Oh, my gosh! I've had this S2 Pro for years now, and it does
> > color???!!!   :-)
> >
> > Of course it's not... but it offers a B&W mode...
> 
> Lots of color cameras do. The original question, I think, was about the
> possibility of a true B&W camera, that didn't sacrifice sharpness by
using a
> Bayer pattern filter for color. In most digital cameras, each pixel
sensor
> is either red, green or blue, and the raw converter interpolates to
fill in
> the other two colors for each pixel. The result isn't as sharp as a
sensor
> that has R+G+B sensors in each pixel, or for B&W a monochrome sensor
in each
> pixel.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...