Since I first picked up a camera, I’ve been on a journey to develop my personal style, or as Ted Forbes puts it in his book Visually Speaking, my own "visual language." Over the years, that language has evolved to be predominantly black and white, in fact, I shoot about 90% of my work in monochrome. Naturally, this has led me to wonder – should I get a dedicated monochrome camera?
Black-and-white-only cameras, such as the Leica M11 Monochrom, Leica Q2 Monochrom, or the Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome, strip out the color filter array (CFA) found in standard digital cameras. This results in sharper images, greater dynamic range, and richer tonal depth. For photographers who live and breathe monochrome, it sounds like the perfect tool. But is it necessary? Or even practical?
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