Turning to colour

[Janice]

I decided to mess about with the b&w in-camera gubbins on my Canon 350d.
Using the in-camera filters, red etc etc. So I took a bunch of B&W shots, and when I put them on the pc, they opened in RAWSHOOTER and immediately turned to colour. and the same happened on the ones i opened in adobe bridge, ready for camera raw conversion. i had to desaturate every image. am I doing somehting wrong? I dont actuallyl want to take B&W photos, i prefer to convert pp, but id just like to know!! ;)

[Hoodi]

when you shoot RAW, the camera saves what-it-sees. You can apply a bunch of settings in-camera (such as B&W)... But the majority of RAW workflow programs just ignore whatever settings you shot with and make up their own!
You'll probably find that Canon's RAW workflow software will keep the in-camera settings, although I can't say for sure :)

[Sean_Mcr]

Can only reiterate what hoodie said...

Also if or when you shoot in jpeg, don't shoot in BW as you can't make it colour. But you can always turn a colour shot in to a BW shot. So shooting in colour always gives you more creative freedom. If you always shoot in raw that's your only option anyway & the best one

[Marcel]

It's because they were in RAW.

As Hoodi has said, the camera only records the data that the sensor 'sees', which is the essence of RAW.

To shoot in B&W the camera takes the image, THEN converts it for you, which negates the premise of RAW.

So to shoot in B&W you would need to shoot in JPEG :)

[whitewash]

You'll probably find that Canon's RAW workflow software will keep the in-camera settings, although I can't say for sure :)


correct, the canon software as far as im aware will hold the black and white + filter settings, i like the way that the camera filters stuff :)

[Hoodi]

Aye, tis one of the big reasons that I use Nikon Capture, and now Capture NX for my RAW's :)

[whitewash]

its just a shame that canons DPP is **** really isnt it!

[Janice]

Yes, Ive never used it!.

[Witch]

For JPEGs the results you get through shooting with the camera set to B&W are different to what you get when you desaturate (by whatever method) afterwards. Not something I use often, but I have on the odd occasion seen something that I thought would look good in mono, and tried it both ways to see which works best.

[minimeeze]

I've had a situation a few times where I open my RAW files in RSE and some of them have been converted to B&W :thinking: What's going on there then?

[Gandhi]

Dunno min. Possibly a setting on the nikon, but I don't think you can set it to do b&w like you do with a canon. Never even tried to be honest.

Maybe user error? Or just one of those random computer things that seem to happen :shrug: