[Imaging Resource] Photographer performs sensor surgery to turn his DSLR into a black

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Trying to get your sensor as sharp as humanly possible seems to be a major theme in photography these days. Manufacturers produce the likes of the Nikon D800E (http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/nikon-d800e/nikon-d800eA.HTM), with its removed anti-aliasing filter for sharper images, or the black-and-white only Leica M Monochrom (http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2012/05/16/the-leica-m-monochrom-is-leica-pricing-out-its-loyal-customers-with-an-8000). Photographer Lasse Beyer took a page out of Leica's book, and modified his old Olympus E-500 to give it a new, black-and-white sensor without a Bayer Filter, in the hopes of getting even sharper photos. Beyer lays out the intricate process on his website (http://preamp.org/mods/olympus-e-500-panchromat-umbau-auf-monochrom#english). The...
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