> On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: > > 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.
I guess most people here don't remember working with B&W film... Working with the Leica MM is very much the same as buying 100 100' rolls of your favorite B&W film and shooting with that until you use it up, using filters and processing to adjust the spectral and tonal characteristics of your photos. Costs about the same too. G -- 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.
