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February 5, 2025
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P: Monochrome Support for Adobe DNG conversion

  • February 5, 2025
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Hi, I make and have many customers who use cameras that I have converted from color to monochrome by removing the Color Filter Array (CFA) and microlenses. A monochrome converted camera has higher spatial and contrast resolution than the same color camera.  Currently, some customers use the utility Monochrome2DNG to convert the camera RAW to a 16 bit monochrome DNG file without debayering (pixel for pixel conversion).  It would be nice if the Adobe DNG converted added monochrome support for DNG creation without debayering as well.  Currently, if you use the Adobe converter on a monochrome camera, you can easily see the debayering on the DNG file where you lose definition.  Maybe a simple switch like '-M' for monochrome / no debayering conversion.