I can literally use a regular camera and press the black and white button in post.

>>4448378 (OP)
imagine being this cucked by (((bayer filter)))

can't you just remove the color filter from any camera?

You mean adding a black and white profile? Yes.

>>4448378 (OP)
No. Effectively color sensors are designed to have to capture hue and value where as mono sensors only have to contend with value capture. So you should get better resolution/details/clipping performance out of a mono sensor. Whether you need one or not is a different story.

>>4448378 (OP)
no, it's 5-20% better for pixel peeping depending on what pixels you are peeping

A dedicated B&W filter is only capturing luminance. It doesn't have a filter in the way trying to divide up the light into RGB and process it into an image. This means the sensor is receiving all of the light, and can use all of its processing power to convert that light into an image. Basically you end up with far crisper low light images, far less noise at high ISO, and really soft gradients (Because you're using the entire bit depth for tones of grey). You get better shadow detail and better highlight detail too.

Basically shooting Black and white on a colour camera will only provide you with limited shades of grey to work with - with tighter limits.

where do the colors go?
life is in color, how does the sensor not suck up the colors?
they must go somewhere
do you have to clean the camera like the printers?

>>4448378 (OP)
Pixel peeping my monochrome is a lot more pleasing than peeping my GFX or foveon ever was
In practice it's probably another stop over Bayer in terms of luma noise
Can also use them for foveon like color shots

astrofags use it for LRGB imaging (using filters)

ex. https://aipastroimaging.com/galeria-lrgb/

>>4448405
>use it for trichrome
fashion is cyclical

Yes it is a scam for most part. Because converting a colour photo into a monochrome one takes literally 1 second in post-processing.

>>4448496
Imagine being this stupid
Probably american

>>4448496
Post conversions will never handle it the same way for reasons outlined in >>4448386. I still love doing them, but I also won't delude myself.

>>4448509
>>4448506
>No that's wrong, you can pixel peep much harder with a real monochrome camera and do deep space astrophotography
In other words it's a scam for the most part

>>4448648
Don't forget enjoy an extra step of IQ

>>4448648
You can also do Trichrome with them :^)

>>4448648
Those extra chromosomes are really showing

You capture only lightness values and cannot balance different colors to grayscale in post. You need to go back using color filters for that.

>>4448378 (OP)

>>4450040
yes saar i will be destroying bayer filter to add 10% light gain to camera sensor believe it

>>4450040
that's really neato

>>4448404

life isn't actually in color

color happens in post (ie your brain)

there are only waves of {a mysterious medium} vibrating in space at different frequencies (also known as wavelengths since they all travel the same speed ie the speed of light).

The color filters on the photo sites let only waves at certain wavelengths through, producing signals.

There are three signals.

They are combined to produce color images.

If you take three b&w pictures of this dude, each through a different R, G, or B filter, you get the b&w images on the right. If you then project all three images through their corresponding R, G, or B filters onto one spot, you get a color image.

the top bw image is the blue color filter one since the areas of blue are brightest, meaning more light was got through there. When you project that image through a blue filter, a lot of blue is going to go onto areas of the robe. The bottom image when projected through a red filter is not going to be very bright where the robe is. That's because it's the red filter. It's also where the reddish parts of the dude and background are brightest.

>>4450065
>NOOO YOU CAN'T MAKE A CAMERA WITH A SPECIFIC PURPOSE NOBODY IS FORCED TO BUY
what even is this cope

>>4450065
seems to have a ~2 stop advantage so a large and not a 10% difference saar