Shooting Monochrome

[Gary.D]

I have started shooting monchrome on my 5d this afternoon, and like I knew it would, when I load up the RAW its back in colour. Is there a way to convert it back to monochrome in the RAW editor on CS4?
Thanks

 

[Matt989]

What software are you using?

 

[Gary.D]

PS CS4

 

[Mud]

What are you opening the file in? The RAW will always be colour, shooting monochrome is like setting your white balance, it's just a line in the file header that doesn't affect the raw capture data.

e: too slow!

 

[Gary.D]

What are you opening the file in? The RAW will always be colour, shooting monochrome is like setting your white balance, it's just a line in the file header that doesn't affect the raw capture data.

e: too slow!

So in that case what advantages am I gaining shooting in monochrome, rather than just shooting standard and converting to black and white afterwards?

 

[Matt989]

In DDP you can just select it from the list of preset styles, in CS4 its a matter of converting them yourself.

Looking at your website im confused as to why youd have to ask this ? :-s

 

[Matt989]

So in that case what advantages am I gaining shooting in monochrome, rather than just shooting standard and converting to black and white afterwards?

none other than being able to view it in B&W on the camera LCD

 

[Gary.D]

In DDP you can just select it from the list of preset styles, in CS4 its a matter of converting them yourself.

Looking at your website im confused as to why youd have to ask this ? :-s

I have never shot monochrome before. I have always converted to black and white in photoshop afterwards. I am just wondering if there is a way of converting the RAW image to the monochrome version in the RAW software on CS4

 

[Gary.D]

none other than being able to view it in B&W on the camera LCD

Ok thanks

 

[Matt989]

Thats strictly RAW though, I believe if you shoot in jpeg with one of the preset on then you will end up with B&W images.

The whole point in RAW is that all processing is left to the photographer, giving you creative contro of the image.

 

[Gary.D]

Thats strictly RAW though, I believe if you shoot in jpeg with one of the preset on then you will end up with a B&W images.

The whole point in RAW is that all processing is left to the photographer, giving you creative contro of the image.

Yeh I understand that.
I am just wondering if I can convert the RAW back to black and white, in the RAW viewer, rather then once I have opened it in PS if this makes sence?

 

[Matt989]

I know you can in DDP, but we all know how poor DDP is. I use lightroom as a RAW convertor which has presets. Maybe someone will be able to guide you on CS4.

Apologies if I patronised you.

 

[Gary.D]

No problem at all Matt, thanks for your help. Maybe if I explained myself properly in the first place there wouldn't be any problems