Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark and B.D. not trying to be obtuse here, but what advantage is there to capture as BW? Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of MARK DAVISON Sent: Friday, 15 September 2006 12:24 To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Re BW modes B.D. Colen wrote: >Any camera's BW mode is and has to be jpg-only, Chris - unless someone has >a tiff bw mode I don't know about. The Nikon D200 will do BW mode with RAW. The BW becomes a direction for how the NEF (Nikon's RAW format) file is processed by the Nikon editor, and the embedded .jpg preview is black and white. Unfortunately other RAW converters do not honor the BW information in the NEF file, so this scheme only works with the Nikon software, and not with Adobe Bridge. Mark Davison >From: "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> >Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M8 hands on >Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:42:18 -0400 > >RAW gives you what the sensor captures, no >more, no less - jpg gives you a combination of more and less, because it >gives you added sharpness, color adjustments, etc., but you lose some >dynamic range. As good as some built in bw modes are - and the one Olympus >has in the E330 and E500 is terrific, and I have no reason to assume it >isn't just as good in the M - you're still much better off shooting raw and >converting yourself. A tad slower in the end, but much more satisfying. > >B.D. > > >On 9/14/06 9:05 PM, "Christopher Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> >wrote: > > > Thanks for the review Tom. Is the BW mode for Jpeg only? I'm a RAW >shooter > > after getting my batch processing down. > > > > Chris > >