Black and white, camera settings or post processing?
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I always shoot in raw, then convert in Post. generally with NIK silver FX
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If you like the results and are using JPEGs for colour or B+W can't see why you wouldn't just use the camera. If you shoot colour in Raw then a different matter.
I don't use Raw on my Ricoh (because it takes 10 seconds to write!) and I love the B+W processing it does so don't have to touch the shots I get out of it.
I don't use Raw on my Ricoh (because it takes 10 seconds to write!) and I love the B+W processing it does so don't have to touch the shots I get out of it.
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Shoot in Raw and JPEG, and make your best guess at the mono effect you'd like in-camera, and set accordingly. There's quite a lot of control available.
This will give you a pretty good idea of what you're getting, might even be perfect. But if not, you also have the Raw file so can do anything you like with that in post processing.
This will give you a pretty good idea of what you're getting, might even be perfect. But if not, you also have the Raw file so can do anything you like with that in post processing.
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I shoot RAW and JPEG, and if you preff. B+W then I this this is the best solution.
If you've some money burning a hole in your pocket, Lecia do a B+W only camera...lol
If you've some money burning a hole in your pocket, Lecia do a B+W only camera...lol
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I always shoot colour and convert in the computer. There are so many more options for converting a colour image to B&W in most editing programs.
If you want the same B&W that most cameras give you as a Jpeg, just move a saturation slider to take all the colour out, because that's what most cameras do. :shrug:
Some cameras have started to have virtual coloured filters to replicate the effect of coloured filters on film cameras. Which could come in handy if you shoot Jpegs to get a different look.
If you shoot in RAW, you can set a B&W Picture Style, review the image on the camera in in B&W on the LCD to give you an idea of how a scene may look without colour, to aid composition. Then you have the colour information in the RAW file to convert in the best way you can. :shrug:
If you want the same B&W that most cameras give you as a Jpeg, just move a saturation slider to take all the colour out, because that's what most cameras do. :shrug:
Some cameras have started to have virtual coloured filters to replicate the effect of coloured filters on film cameras. Which could come in handy if you shoot Jpegs to get a different look.
If you shoot in RAW, you can set a B&W Picture Style, review the image on the camera in in B&W on the LCD to give you an idea of how a scene may look without colour, to aid composition. Then you have the colour information in the RAW file to convert in the best way you can. :shrug:
