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Monochrome Sensor Capture: Filtration
This page discusses color filters on a monochrome-sensor camera. Never use color filters on a color-sensor cameras as it will greatly increase noise and not achieve the desired effect, due to the way the color filter array overlaps.
Detailed examples can be found elsewhere such as:
Color Filters on Leica M10 Monochrome
Recommended filters for various use cases
If you are coming from a film photography basis, reset your expectations for digital; behavior is different.
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Diglloyd Infrared Photography covers cameras and lenses for infrared photography.
The coverage explains all the issues involved in shooting for monochrome and in infrared. It is not a review of any particular camera or lens, though many examples are included.
- Monochrome vs color cameras.
- Post processing for monochrome.
- Guidance on workflow for infrared, including black and white and channel swapping for false-color images.
- How infrared renders, and why certain spectral cutoffs matter: false color vs black and white.
- Image quality issues to be on the lookout for in infrared.
- Numerous lens evaluations in infrared.
View an overview of infrared as well as filter spectral transmission plus examples from an optimal lens.