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Anyone know why the (only?) picture is in black and white? It seems taking one with color wouldn't be any more difficult...


Most likely the picture was taken with a monochrome sensor with a filter applied tuned to a specific wavelength. That's more valuable than a color filter, which is made up of a mosaic of single pixel individual red, green and blue filters, interpolated to produce a RGB image.


I think it is a color photo, just it’s just everything I’m pretty much is grey I think. If you look closely in some parts there’s a tiny bit of color.


Yup. I just grabbed it and pinned the saturation, and you can see that the circular grills around the edge of the head are copper-colored.




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