I have a confession. I’ve been reviewing cameras for more than a dozen years, but I’ve never shot on a digital camera that shoots exclusively in black and white. That is, until I picked up the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome last week.
Camera sensors are actually colorblind. The sensor itself is only capable of seeing different intensities of light. But add a patterned color filter – one color to each pixel – and the camera can detect how much of a color is in a scene and, through a mix of those filters and software, create a colored image.
