EPIC-M Monochrome

[Jarred Land]

Hmmm... trying to grasp the significance of this. Does this somehow mean that all color will be added in post? Even as I say that it sounds weird but otherwise... what? Just B&W images?

It is significant to people that live in the B&W world. It is a request that we have had many times over the years just never had the resources to make it a reality.. until now.

Having a dedicated BW camera if you are shooting BW is leaps and bounds better than shooting in color then transferring to BW later. It is why they continue to make BW film. There is no color filters on each of the pixels so you get increased light to each pixel, and there is no debayer process, so you get a much "sharper" image... a better tonal transfer in gradients as there is no interpolation.

[Philipe Ratton]

One for me please ! (i wish)

[Ryan De Franco]

Hmmm... trying to grasp the significance of this. Does this somehow mean that all color will be added in post? Even as I say that it sounds weird but otherwise... what? Just B&W images?

"Just" black and white images.....

[Martin Stevens]

Now that's a colorful post.

[Terry VerHaar]

Interesting - I got the "sharper image" part right away. I just didn't realize there was a large demand for B&W only images; at least not to the tune of $42K. lol

But, I am right that one could colorize the images in post and have one hell of a sharp image in full color. Yes?

[L. Langer]

This is truly a pre-emptive strike against The Whiners. Can't wait to see what this does in 3D.

[Richard Harrison]

Sweet! If the monochrome Leica is amazing, the monochrome EPIC is going to be like shooting with a unicorn...

[Mark Phelan]

I think the first monochrome Epic M should be named Ansel.

[brett ogden]

Well now... That's going to be very, very interesting. :D

Well Said

[BillBarnes]

This sounds awesome Jarred!

Question, will the possible frame rates see a significant change from what I guess is a pretty big difference in data rate? Am I right in guessing that files of the same resolution and frame rate will be around half the size?