Re: Your experience having a Sony camera converted to Monochrome?
Nifty Fifty wrote:
Steve Spencer wrote: Nifty Fifty wrote:
shadow9d9 wrote:
It does seem like at least a few people enjoy monochrom cameras. I am hoping for a q3 monchrom, not wanting to buy the 4 year old q2.
The m11m is mega expensive and manual, which I am not a fan of myself at the moment. Pentak is an option but i do not like dslr style bodies. I am not convinced that a monochrom converted sony offers what I am looking for.
I will be back in the states for a few weeks in seotember before heading out again, and if no q3m is announced, might just go for one of those 3 while i await the q3m. I'll report back my thoughts to add to the list after I've gathered experience.
I heard somewhere that there's unlikely to be a Q3 mono because Sony doesn't offer a 61MP monochrome sensor that would enable AF, and there's no indication that this will change anytime soon. I don't know anything about this myself and am only mentioning it so you know what to google, for example, in the Leica User Forum.
I don't see why they couldn't offer their 61MP sensor in monochrome with AF. Related to the theme of this thread, you can certainly convert a Sony camera with this sensor to monochrome and I believe you can still use it with AF, so I don't see why Sony couldn't built it that way. They would just need to leave off the color filter array which I don't think plays any role in AF or so it seems to me, but maybe I am missing something.
It probably has something to do with the fact that the Q3's AF is based on phase detectors, and so far, these only work with color sensors. But as I said, I just wanted to point out that the discussion about whether a Q3 Mono will be released has been going on for a long time, and always ends with this explanation. I just wanted to point it out; I'm not really interested in it myself.
I was just pointing out that this argument doesn't make sense to me. Why would removing the color filter array prevent these sensors from working? As far as I know phase detect still works on Sony cameras when they are converted to monochrome. If these converted Sony camera have phase detect AF, then phase detect sensors cannot be the reason the sensor is not made.
Re: Your experience having a Sony camera converted to Monochrome?
Nifty Fifty wrote:
Steve Spencer wrote: Nifty Fifty wrote:
shadow9d9 wrote:
It does seem like at least a few people enjoy monochrom cameras. I am hoping for a q3 monchrom, not wanting to buy the 4 year old q2.
The m11m is mega expensive and manual, which I am not a fan of myself at the moment. Pentak is an option but i do not like dslr style bodies. I am not convinced that a monochrom converted sony offers what I am looking for.
I will be back in the states for a few weeks in seotember before heading out again, and if no q3m is announced, might just go for one of those 3 while i await the q3m. I'll report back my thoughts to add to the list after I've gathered experience.
I heard somewhere that there's unlikely to be a Q3 mono because Sony doesn't offer a 61MP monochrome sensor that would enable AF, and there's no indication that this will change anytime soon. I don't know anything about this myself and am only mentioning it so you know what to google, for example, in the Leica User Forum.
I don't see why they couldn't offer their 61MP sensor in monochrome with AF. Related to the theme of this thread, you can certainly convert a Sony camera with this sensor to monochrome and I believe you can still use it with AF, so I don't see why Sony couldn't built it that way. They would just need to leave off the color filter array which I don't think plays any role in AF or so it seems to me, but maybe I am missing something.
It probably has something to do with the fact that the Q3's AF is based on phase detectors, and so far, these only work with color sensors. But as I said, I just wanted to point out that the discussion about whether a Q3 Mono will be released has been going on for a long time, and always ends with this explanation. I just wanted to point it out; I'm not really interested in it myself.
I was just pointing out that this argument doesn't make sense to me. As far as I know phase detect still works on Sony cameras when they are converted to monochrome. Why would removing the color filter array prevent these sensors from working? If it does, do converted Sony cameras no longer have phase detect AF? If they these converted Sony camera have phase detect AF, then phase detect sensors cannot be the reason the sensor is not made.
Aug 17, 2025 at 02:48 PM
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