new camera

[nelly3164]

hi everyone, recieved my d50 today, nice for price!. 1 question how do i change from colour to shoot in black and white (too lazy to read instructions!), thanks.

[CT]

LOL Sorry Nelly but that takes the biscuit. :lol:

I got a Canon anyway, so I've no idea. :shrug:

[oldgit]

fnarr.

Return Camera to shop and trade it in for some charcoal sticks and some white paper.

Saves reading anyway.

[nelly3164]

hi, i dont mean i cant be bothered its just that i only unpacked it 15 mins ago and i am just impatient!.

[hypnotic]

Shame.

I bet all the Nikon owners will be tucked up fast asleep in their straight jackets by now. :lol:

Can you wait till morning?

[CTR_Chris]

best to make adjustments in PS

[Venomator]

hi, i dont mean i cant be bothered its just that i only unpacked it 15 mins ago and i am just impatient!.

Hmmmm ... So who gave you the instructions for the unpacking ... :thinking:



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[IanC_UK]

dont know much about Nikons, but i suspect its in the menu settings if there is one there, if not shoot colour and change the colour in post processing.

[Jimmys friend REG]

This is taken from the D80 manual so not sure how relevant the menus are but i went to the back page of the manual to the A-Z index and looks for black and white and it directed me to this page:

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/8431/bwzb5.png

id agree with IanC UK though probably better to shoot colour and desaturate using software post processing as you can manually adjust how much desaturation you like for the effect you desire this way

[nelly3164]

hi guys, thanks for the replies. i have looked in the index but there is no reference to shooting in black and white?.

[Grendel]

The best way to achieve good black and white it to sort it out in post processing. ie Photoshop or similar.

[DoubleT]

haha! too impatient to read through the manual, but has the patients to keep hitting refresh on this page for several hours though the page!.

as said above, i think would just be best to do this in PS..

infact i dont even think the d50 has the b&w option...

[nelly3164]

hi, thanks guys. i can not find any b&w settings on camera but have started to use psp to convert.

[King_Boru]

You cant shoot B&W on the D50. Your best bet is to shoot colour and convert in PP or something similar. Soot in RAW as well!

King.

[TG.]

d50 owner here, and as said above you can't shoot in b&w do it in photoshop best bet, if you have'nt got photoshop, go to the google page download "picasa" for free,then convert your colour photo to b&w in seconds, job done :thumbs:

[nelly3164]

hi and thanks guys, will use my d50 for colour and i have a fuji s1 pro i got off e-bay last week works perfect will use this for b&w, also i can swap lenses between cameras, result!.

[Warspite]

As said you should always shoot in colour and post-process, that way you have more options than taking B&W and finding it works best in colour, or heaven forbid you forget to change it back and shoot a load of B&W when you needed colour ;)

Congratulations on the new camera, notice you've already been busy :thumbs: