I finally bit the bullet and ordered a Leica Monochrom, and between UPS and the weather my overnight delivery has turned into 3 days (and counting). So to amuse my impatient self I am trying to educate myself about camera sensors and how they work.
I understand how the Bayer array works, with 4 individual sensels (2 green, 1 red, 1 blue) being combined in processing to provide one pixel in the final full-color image. This tells me that the sensor in a (say) 25 MP camera really has 100 million individual sensing elements, combined by fours to give 25 MP.
If this is true, then I wonder why Leica limited the Monochrom to 24 MP. Each sensel can be its own pixel, so it seems like it would be easy to create a monochrome camera with 100 MP or more. Maybe the lenses aren’t up to it? What say you?