[Leica] Power of B&W?

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Ted

A very interesting topic. I agree to every point. B&W is the reduction of 
the visual input to it's main parameters, like form, light, contrast, 
framing. It is accelerating the power of imagination. It leads to the 
content of the image better as colors might be, as you say, distracting.

For me, there's another, non-intellectual, but very practical reason to 
prefer B&W. Because it's always, and everywhere, "B&W-weather" and 
"B&W-light". Can't say that about "Kodachrome-64-weather" and 
"Kodachrome-64-light" ;-)...

I have made some color pictures that really look better in color. But it's 
only a few. On my new digital camera, the B&W mode is mostly on. The only 
settings I switch often are the different color filter effects.

Didier



>Power of the B&W Image?