Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/10

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Subject: [Leica] B&W Conversion options
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Wed May 10 11:53:51 2006
References: <b2e81a6533288b2cc314b9bde6dcb069@depaul.edu>

I'm very pleased with BW Pro form Fred Miranda.
But Yayanand recently posted some great links with great and free  
conversions, like this one, for instance:
http://www.zuberphotographics.com/page_Downloads.htm


Op 10-mei-06, om 16:56 heeft bob palmieri het volgende geschreven:

> Folks -
>
> Shot some shots of the immigration rally here in Chicago last week;  
> here's a coupla samples:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/immigration-rally-05-06/ 
> check_yourself_65
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/immigration-rally-05-06/none_illegal_63
>
> Liked the color thing, but decided to try to convert to B&W.  I  
> think maybe in the case of the first one I might need the color to  
> establish contrast in the light as shot, but I was wondering about  
> these dedicated "convert to B&W" tools.  Do they do more than an  
> artful application of channel mixer & curves? If so, which tools  
> really work for you? If not, do some of you have favorite ratios &  
> shapes for the manual method?
>
> I promise I'll search the archives since I've been out of touch  
> with this list for awhile but since this sort of thing seems like  
> an ever-changing game I thought I'd throw this out there.
>
> I'm also interested in knowing how people feel about the use of  
> color vs B&W for documentary-style snapping in general, although I  
> suppose it really depends on the individual image...
>
> Bob Palmieri
>
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Replies: Reply from lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] B&W Conversion options)
In reply to: Message from rpalmier at depaul.edu (bob palmieri) ([Leica] B&W Conversion options)