On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Matt Bevers wrote: > This of course doesn't mean that taking a B&W photo on a 6MP camera > results in a 2MP file.
If you are using a red, blue, or green filter it effectively does. Only it is a little worse for red and blue and better for green (there are 1.5 million red and blue pixels and 3 million green ones). If you are using no filter when desaturating then you are getting more pixels. It would be nice if one could buy a B&W only digital camera that didn't have the color filter in front of the CCD. I don't believe it is easily possible to remove just the color filter though...I think it is manufactured in a single unit along with the CCD. alex
