[Leica] Re: B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?

[nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts)]

There was a DCS 3m on ebay here a few months ago. Now I agree that's not 
categoric proof, but it's why I think there might actually have been one! ;)

Nick

----- Original Message ----
From: B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 3 October, 2006 4:30:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?


I may be dead wrong on this one - God knows I have been on occasion ;-) -
but while they have had a camera or two to show off, I don't think the beast
ever hit the market in any form. Anyone ever see a review of it?

But all that aside, presumably there may be a sensor sitting around. And the
idea, as I recall it, was that true RAW data is, in fact, gray scale data,
and that, as I believe Adam just noted, the sensor applies color to the RAW
data to get the color RAW image.


On 10/3/06 11:20 AM, "Nick Roberts" <nickbroberts@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I believe the EOS DCS 1,3 and 5 appeared in mono versions - I'm far from 
> sure
> that there was ever a version of the DCS 560, which I have heard rumoured.
> 
> Nick
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 October, 2006 4:00:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?
> 
> 
> Nick - Are you sure it actually appeared? Or was there just talk and
> avertising materials.
> 
> 
> On 10/3/06 4:14 AM, "Nick Roberts" <nickbroberts@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> There was a Canon-bodied version as well.
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, 3 October, 2006 4:21:40 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?
>> 
>> 
>> kodak did for a while, it was a 760m (nikon f5 based) monochrome only.
>> short lived, highly sought after, rarely shows up in ebay
>> 
>> On 10/2/06, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>> Does anyone make a camera suitable sensor that is B&W only?
>>> 
>>> Ric
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 2, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Christopher Williams wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This discussion has gone on for what, 4 weeks now?
>>>> 
>>>> RAW is RAW, BW is BW. One camera for color, one for BW. I'm for it.
>>>> 
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Tina Manley"
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I don't understand why anybody would want a B&W version over a RAW
>>>>> version.  RAW is the negative.  You can develop it any way you
>>>>> want.  Once it's been developed as B&W, you can't redevelop it for
>>>>> highlights or shadows or anything else.  Why would you want
>>>>> that?  RAW has all of the information that the camera captures.  B&W
>>>>> only would throw away most of this information. Are you going to
>>>>> depend on the camera software to develop the negative for you? It
>>>>> doesn't make sense to make a B&W only camera!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tina
>>>> 
>>>> 
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