I have always felt the B&W shows more definition, possibly because the brain has less information to process, but maybe because the colour defuses the sharp lines, with B&W there is less diffusion.
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Login Going back to the 80's, the camera definition was poorer, B&W was the most cost effective way to shoot lots of pics and to print them, so pics were in B&W as the norm, colour was rarer, or restricted to the more expensive mags. With the onset of colour becoming the norm, we had to wait for HD before definition returned to pics, in my opinion.
Here are a few comparisons from 2010 in colour and black and white, I can see more definition in the B&W pics. I personally think a mix of black and white and colour in coverage works, but if colour were dropped altogether, I don't think we would lose much. A bit like watching an old B&W movie, after a few minutes, you don't notice the difference.
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LoginHaving said that, many mags produced large images as part of the coverage of some athletes. If you look at the older mags, some of the best colour pics ever were produced , were in the early 90's mags, before HD. Fewer images than today's web based coverage, but a case of less is more.