Cape Neddick shack - Monochrome Sensor Conversion

[bobfriedman]

D800M Converted to Monochrome, Zeiss Milvus 25mm f/1.4
1/400s f/8.0 at 25.0mm iso100

 

[AlanLichty]

I am impressed at the level of detail and contrast in this scene. Excellent work.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Welcome to the forum Bob, and this is a great first image, well done.

 

[JimFox]

Wow Bob! This is such an interesting building, and the B&W makes it even more so! Love it!

And Welcome to FocalWorld, it's really great to have you here.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Welcome aboard! Nice work. Never heard about converting a camera to monochrome, can you tell us more about that?

 

[bobfriedman]

Welcome aboard! Nice work. Never heard about converting a camera to monochrome, can you tell us more about that?

yes... check maxmax.com they performed the modification. essentially it is removing the bayer array (color filter array) and micro lenses. Now for pure colors (e.g. red) you get the full 36mpx resolution instead of 9mpx. (color filter array is 9mpx Red, 9mpx Blue and 16mpx Green).The camera is about a stop and half maybe two stops faster (more sensitve) as well.

 

[JimFox]

yes... check maxmax.com they performed the modification. essentially it is removing the bayer array (color filter array) and micro lenses. Now for pure colors (e.g. red) you get the full 36mpx resolution instead of 9mpx. (color filter array is 9mpx Red, 9mpx Blue and 16mpx Green).The camera is about a stop and half maybe two stops faster (more sensitve) as well.

Thanks for that information, I was wondering the same thing but forgot to ask. That's a really cool result of that mono conversion.

 

[JimFox]

Congrats on the Daily Featured Photo Bob!

@bobfriedman

 

[Dan Moorehead]

Amazing photo