Black and White only camera - Leica M Monochrom

Black and White only camera - Leica M Monochrom. Hipster tastic! Although it is based on the Leica M9, the Leica M Monochrom has no colour filter array, so it can only record black and white images. This means that every one of its 18 million pixels is used to record brightness values, and there is no demosaicing of the red, green and blue signals to create a full colour image. Removing the RGGB (red, green, green, blue) filter array above the sensor has a number of effects. Firstly, more ligh