Re: OT: Black & White or Colour?

Following up to "Paul Saunders" <pvs1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Someone recently said that going blind doesn't improve your
hearing, you just concentrate on it more.

Exactly!!!!!

there may be an extra factor in that B&W film used to be "better" than
colour for that sort of thing.


Really? How? Better resolution perhaps?

Yes and better blacks

If so, then the reverse is true with digital. Since digital creates colour
from multiple sensors with different coloured filters over them (red, green,
blue), a monochrome image made purely from one colour sensor (e.g. red, for
a red filter effect) is actually using less pixels, hence has lower
resolution.

this is all pre digital, making monochromes from a digital is an area
that needs exploration for validity. Shot in the dark. Phot of black
babe against black background shot on quality B&W film wont be matched
by digital?

The best solution to this would be to create a monochrome digital camera,
with no colour filters over the sensors, and to use actual colour filters on
the lens instead, for the maximum possible resolution.

I suspect so.
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