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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-04-2016, 01:05 PM
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I just don't understand if there seems to be a general consensus that having a monochrome only shooting camera has advantages, then why is it not more widely employed in the digital camera world? I mean, there is like a billion lenses on offer to buy, loads of choice and models of cameras, why no monochrome specific ones? Why is it only the Leica who have one, or you take your existing colour camera and get it modded by what seems to be just one company that can do it? It strikes me that there is a significant market for it, I mean there are thousands of black and white shooters out there.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-29-2016, 06:12 PM
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What's pixel shift?
My curiosity in all of this is my fascination with the Leica Monochrome digital camera that costs a bomb! However, I follow a couple of people on flickr who use it, and the results speak for themselves, in the right hands it produces some really nice high quality images.
I then started reading a little about it, why it's monochrome etc, and that lead me to other avenues whereby ppl 'say' they get a nicer higher quality picture from their cameras if the sensor is converted to monochrome etc.
I don't know about that... hence the purpose of this thread, I just wanted to see if anyone here has had their K-5 converted and what they felt about it.
If it's true, that a b&w sensor is in theory (and practice) capable of producing better b&w images natively rather than post processing, I find it odd that in 2016 there are absolutely no other digital cameras to buy with that kind of sensor other than the difficult Leica Monochrome.
I know plenty of people who prefer b&w, indeed a few rolliflex friends who print b&w etc.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-29-2016, 12:58 AM
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Just wondered, has anyone been crazy enough to get their K-5 sensor converted to monochrome?
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