On 2010-10-08 19:24, Calum Mackay wrote: > One thing to consider, at least with Nikon dSLRs, is that many of the > in-camera post-processing options are not available when shooting in B/W > mode. If you want to use those, then you need to shoot Colour, then > convert afterwards (either in-camera or on PC). >
Using Rawstudio I've noticed no difference in the options available to me. > But as to which is better, or whether to convert to B/W in-camera (as > opposed to shooting B/W), or on the computer, I'm not sure... I'd be > interested to hear opinions, too. > 'Better' means nothing without some sort of metric. How can you take the 'best' pictures? Which restaurant has the 'best' food? Which movie is the 'best'? There are many ways to do B/W conversions, and which one is the right one or best one depends on the result you're trying to acheive. There are even many programs specifically made for doing B/W conversions. The only good argument that I can even see for doing it in the raw conversion stage is to utilise the much better colour depth. After the initial B/W conversion you only have a paltry 256 shades of gray to work with, which doesn't make much room for e.g. contrast adjustments without the histogram suddenly looking like a forest after a fire. :-) Martin _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-users mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-users
