Shades of grey, black and white RAW?

[Tony Weller]

Hi.
I'm currently using the crop 4K-on-steroids on a 700D  purchased for using ML and getting 2224x1008 RAW for about 20 seconds which of course is amazing, thanks ML team.

I take a lot of photos in bnw and wondered if  ML that did this and possibly save all that colour/color bandwidth? I turn the saturation to zero in Resolve currently which is wasting bits on colour/color.

Thanks

[Walter Schulz]

Software cannot remove physical objects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter

[Levas]

Exactly and it still wouldn't matter.
There is no data waste for color information if you're shooting raw.
Each pixel is 14 bits of information, doesn't matter if it represents a green, blue or red pixel...

The raw photos of a 24 megapixel Leica M monochrome are just as big as one from a 'normal' 24 megapixel Leica M that shoots photos in color.

[Tony Weller]

Thanks for taking the time. Education is good.

I could have just compared the file of a bnw still to a color still and realized this?