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Black and white with a three colour sensor

Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:18 am
by P C Headland
So, some nice guys a Sigma make a quirky camera with a different sort of sensor, one that records all three colours at once. So what does this guy do? Uses your fancy three colour sensor to shoot pictures with all the colour removed...

Here's a few from a couple of weekends ago, when I caught up with a photographer friend for an afternoon's wandering round a central city suburb.

Steps to somewhere:
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Fancy downpipe attached to a fancy apartment:
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Shadows and grills:
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All shot with the Sigma DP2M, processed as B&W in Sigma ProPhoto and lightly tweaked in Aperture. I still really love using this camera, in spite of or maybe because of its quirks.

Re: Black and white with a three colour sensor

Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:35 am
by Brazile
Nice! Because all colors are captured equally, it's also possible to use the color wheel in SPP as an after-the-fact filter, as if you had a yellow, orange, red, or green filter on the camera while shooting. Fun to play with.

Robert

Re: Black and white with a three colour sensor

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 10:13 am
by Nancy B
Love the stairs!

Re: Black and white with a three colour sensor

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:16 am
by Julio1fer
Excellent, with P.C. signature written all over them. That's a good use of color sensors!

Re: Black and white with a three colour sensor

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 8:32 pm
by OpenWater
I've always found your photos to be excellent, PC. These are no exception.

Re: Black and white with a three colour sensor

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:17 pm
by PFMcFarland
It does quite well rendering images in B&W, Paul. And you do even better composing them.

PF

Re: Black and white with a three colour sensor

Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 2:54 pm
by LarryD
Outstanding.