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So you can usually easily make IR photos with an achromatic sensor. It means, however, that not only do you have to have the various color contrast filters to make regular B&W photos, but you also need both an IR-cut filter (for making photos with visible light) and an IR-low-pass filter (for making IR photos). So you're carrying around a lot of extra stuff.
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Are there other advantages to the achromatic sensor?
Not really in my experience. You can capture just about the same tonality and dynamic range with an equivalent color sensor, and you get a lot more flexibility in post processing. Plus you can make color photos if you want.
Again, I'm glad I have access to an achromatic sensor, but I use it only occasionally, for maybe 20% of my photos.
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By the way, I've spoken to photographers who insist that using an achromatic sensor is essential for artistic purity and integrity, but I think those are the same people who a decade earlier were claiming that digital photography isn't sufficient pure.
If I wanted to make it gratuitously harder to make photos I'd just go out without my eyeglasses.
@[email protected] And when they want color photos they take multiple exposures with different colored filters and then combine in post? :D
@[email protected] Technicolor forever!