Almost a year ago the first rumor about a Samsung Black and White sensor camera surfaced. And it seems like the chance is getting higher and higher to see that for real! Photorumors reports a 20 megapixel NX300 monochrome camera could be announced soon. The camera basically uses the same 20 Megapixel sensor of the current NX300 but gets rid of the color array and AA filter.
That camera would be the first monochrome (non-Leica) mirrorless camera on market. And I certainly like the idea to have such a camera in my bag!
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someone enlighten me please… if its black n white minitone chip, without/scratched off/no colour filter on it.. wouldn’t the native res be exactly four times higher than a colour filter RGB chip, since it no longer has to merge a blue pixel and a red and a two green together anymore? or did i miss something?
anyhow, hope the price is low enough to give this some real love 🙂 would be neat fun to be forced to think purely black n white again without art filters messing up a good thing! If i have enough coins, I’ll buy into this just to show my support to samsung for releasing this great monochrome concept ! and instead of builtin ND filter, can we please have a yellow/orange/red/blue black n white gels builtin with a hard switch to flip over ?
The resolution factor between bayer and earlier foveon sensors (those with equal pixelcounts of each color), is the square root of two, 1,414…
I hope its the NX400 (with NX1 sensor) that comes in a special B/W edition. That would be fantastic for amature astronomers.
Nothing about nx400 with embedded evf in the same timeframe?
I shoot 80% mono anyway so i would be very tempted with the advantages of this sensor.
Not much info out there, but from my searches i’ve read 2 stops advantage. This along with the bsi technology and this would have a performance comparable to FF. They could also lower the mp to 16 or 18 to increase this further.
I want one if they release a nx400 with evf!
The 2 stops advantage is the same as with Leica Monochrome. The RGB filter array filters at least 2/3 of the light away (nearly 2 stops). So once you remove that filter – voila!
it appears like the Samsung brand is joining the camera market for good.
Admin, please change this blog name to Samsung Rumors. Thanks.
Usually it is Sony or Fuji rumors, so something different is nice
I would buy this camera. But ONLY if were 10X more expensive, and sporting a Hasselblad badge.
I think it Is cheaper to paint my Samsung microwave oven in Black and White, similar results but ar least the food is warm!
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I certainly didn’t expect this move from Samsung, the guys that do not have a B/W preset in their cameras…
Do they still not? My old nx10 doesn’t but i assumed they do now.
At least not the current NX300, I don’t know about the NX30 or the NX1…
They had black and white back in the in NX10 / NX11 days, its under Picture Wizard and “classic”.
that’s not totally accurate, even though the ‘classic’ preset is black and white; it does not provide a ‘clean’ black and white image, but an image processed to look kind of old and vintage…