Nikon D700 B&W mode

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Hi

I'm a little puzzled ... nothing unusual there.

Went street togging and set the D700 to B&W mode thinking this would speed up in camera processing giving me a better chance of nailing a killer shot ( one can dream) - Anyway when I checked the camera screen, sure enough, shots were showing B&W.

Got home, downloaded shots and they all come out in colour.
Is there any point in setting the camera to B&W ?
 
If you are shooting in RAW, and set the camera to B&W the preview will show B&W, but the RAW file still contains all the colour data. Then you can convert to B&W in PP.

If you shot in jpeg it would save it B&W.
 
If you're shooting in RAW then your photo's will always be saved in colour regardless f display options. If you're shooting JPEGS then I would of though they would come out B & W

edit slow fingers
 
The "gimmicks" such as the B&W mode are really meant for use when shooting in jpeg. Programmes such as Lightroom and Photoshop disregard in-camera these settings when opening a Nikon raw file, iirc the only one that applies them is Nikon's own Capture NX.
 
I personally like to set the camera to B&W when shooting street pictures. I don't know why, but it helps me think about the shots in a B&W way.

Then, when I get home, I convert the RAWs to B&W (if that's what I choose when seeing them on the computer).
 
Cheers all.
Thought I'd be waiting some time for a response here.

Was shooting in raw as I thought I'd get a wider spectrum of shades.
Normally I'd just convert to BW, but thought I'd let the camera do the job and see if I thought the results would be just as good as my own conversions (not a difficult task).

So if I want BW out - shoot JPEG.
Still relying on PP to rescue my poor metering, so will probably just stick to raw.

Thanks again for help :thumbs:
 
Stick with B&W jpegs purely to look at while you are shooting. Just discard them afterwards and work on the RAWs.
 
Maybe shoot in raw+jpeg? Alternatively, as Flash In The Pan said, if you use NX2 to import and process your files, it will retain the black and white information, so you will be able to view the raw files as processed by the camera. If you can be bothered with NX2 of course, personally I'd rather saw my own arm off than use it...............
 
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