You have no secondary color correction. You have primary only (on set)…you can put a red filter on the lens to make a grey apple look darker than the grey leaves on the apple tree. Or you could put a green filter on to make the leaves darker grey than the apples (I’m talking about red apples in my example, obviously…not granny smiths…)

But you do either of those and you’re making decisions that will affect the skin tones of actors (and the sky and every other color b/c you can’t individually isolate it.)

Also, when’s the last time you saw a color filter set at a rental house for black and white? Who has all these filters with modern levels of sharpness for modern sensors or cameras?

And the only real benefit is sharpness and lack of noise in the shadows and things that the red’s (and prettymuch every other professional digital camera—and most non-professional ones too, btw…) already have. Okay, so if the new dragon is gonna be 6k…that’s gonna be plenty sharp for a 4k projector…

Color is better for modern black and white except for this “sharpness” “resolution” bs…

…since sharpness is also a psychological phenomenon, heightened by contrast, the ability to make your image more contrasty based on the color information (or less contrasty—to make a different part of the image more prominent, or to defocus a certain color like say the cooler colors to make backgrounds less sharp of a vista type of shot [since the cooler colors recede]) …you can make your film “sharp” without having a technically sharper resolved image.

Some filmmakers chose color b/c the modern color stocks have significantly less grain than plus-x, tri-x, double-c, (and especially) 4x.

(Further disclaimer, this may sound like drawing a handlebar mustache on the Mona Lisa right before you set it on fire) If the Epic M does black and white better than a color camera could, does that mean that the Color Epic would do better than the Epic M? Why not buy an Epic M and then colorize the footage in post production (So that you can have great black-and-white if you want without needing to forego color footage either?

I highiy suspect this wouldn’t work and violates some sort of cinematic sacred ground, but if I don’t ask the question, I won’t get the answer. Thank you for your patience.

$42,000 ( brain only ) includes upgrade to Dragon Monochrome Sensor spring 2013.