Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/29

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Subject: [Leica] Converted Monochrome
From: john at mcmaster.co.uk (John McMaster)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:09:47 +0000
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$1000 on top of the price of a donor...

john

?On 29/12/2020, 18:04, "LUG on behalf of Richard Man" 
<lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org on behalf of richard at 
imagecraft.com> wrote:

    The monochrom conversion is "only" $1000, the price of a Leica lenscap 
;-)
    Worth it? who knows. fyi, Monochrom (the original) still fetches
    about $3500-$4500

    As for films,  yea, I shoot a lot of those ;-)

    Paul, by pulling off the color filter, it *could* increase the apparent
    resolution. Definitely not 4x, but not insignificant.

    On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 9:39 AM Paul Roark via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
    wrote:

    > Is the only advantage of pulling off the color filter layer of the 
sensor
    > (assuming focus is kept flat via some neutral replacement) increasing 
the
    > speed/ISO of the camera?
    >
    > I was wondering if (and doubting that) any company was able to 
separate the
    > individual sensor elements and quadruple the resolution.
    >
    > Paul
    > www.PaulRoark.com
    >
    > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 7:59 PM Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
    > wrote:
    >
    > > Hi Paul, the Sony A7 conversion I am aware of is the site that 
Jayanyand
    > > referenced:
    > > https://www.monochromeimaging.com/
    > >
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