Hi Everyone,
after travelling before Easter (without my camera) I got some virus or so that made me feel pretty awful for much longer than normal, which is why I have been pretty absent here, too, but...
...at some point this crazy old idea about a DSLR with a B/W only sensor kept jumping around in my head, and I wanted to see what others though about it.
Except for the loss of colour, I can see huge advantages in removing the Bayer filter; it should be 1-2 stops more sensitive, which would be huge. And it should produce sharper pictures due to not needing the demosaic. If you then also scrap the AA filter it'd be even sharper, and I would think that the AA filter wouldn't be as necessary anyhow (because I could imagine that without the demosaic, and the resulting higher effective resolution, Moire wouldn't be such a big problem as to require this artificial blurring).
Dreaming on, if the 5D3 were B/W only I'd get it together with a colour-capable 600D. Who else would buy a B/W only DSLR?
Ciao ciao, Colin