Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Worse still IMHO is that you must accept the b&w rendering that the >>> camera applies. That's like using a single film only for all your >>> shooting and seems awfully limiting. With a colour camera you can use >>> any of dozens of possible conversion techniques from RAW to b&w and so >>> get a lot more artistic control over the process. >> >> Respectfully, Bruce, that's not true. If you read the B&H reviews, >> many people still enjoy using Silver Efex Pro to do their own >> rendering from the RAW files (which still contain way more information >> than a mere JPEG does). You've got all kind of creativity left there. > >After the camera has tonally mapped all the colour info into a >grayscale file though, no matter how many bits you have, even 16, you >still have lost the ability to creatively map the colour yourself. >About all that Silver Efex can do for you at that point is contrast, >curves, levels and sharpening/blurring/"structure" etc. Whereas with >the colour info intact you can create pseudo IR images if you want. > >Yes, you can use colour filters on the lens to get back some control. >But still not as much as the raw colour output from un-neutered >cameras.
Quite. This is why B&W-only cameras don't make any sense to me. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
