Shooting with B&W in mind.

[Marc]

I've been thinking that a lot of my shots from the London meets have ended up being converted to B&W (And not only because of crappy weather). So I was thinking about deliberately shooting with the intention of converting to B&W. Now, not wishing to start another row over chimping here, but does anyone ever set up their camera to shoot in B&W when shooting in RAW, knowing that they will still get the colour when they upload them? I'm thinking that this could give an instant check to see if I am along the right lines and also to give something to aim for when doing the conversion

Thoughts?

 

[mak1]

There is an article with this exact suggestion in one of the camera mags this month (DCM i believe). It says to shoot in RAW but with the camera set to B&W so you see a preview of the image on screen and of course colour data is preserved in the RAW file.

Something i'll be trying as the weather has been very poor of late!

 

[Marc]

Thanks Mak, I'll look out for the magazine.

 

[The Matt]

I shoot a lot with black and white in mind, but much of the time shoot it in colour to convert later. I'm a fan of b&w taken through coloured filters, only I don't have any. Desaurating in post processing gives me chance to get the same effect without pricey glass.