Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd love to have full BW RAW mode, no color converting at all. Save even more time when I'm dealing with 800-1600 images from a wedding. Now that we're getting into even more megapixel's in cameras, anything to speed up processing. Try converting 500 or more color RAW images to BW jpeg on a D1x with 10mp interpolation on! Also I hate that clients just consider "well, you can just change it to BW later right?". I want the BW capture first! I want Neopan 1600 in a 10mp camera GD! There was talk from Leica on a BW only digital M. Special limited edition matte chrome Bresson Digital BW M8.5 camera, only $9999 Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "G Hopkinson" Subject: RE: [Leica] Re BW modes > B.D., yes, got that you were championing original RAW capture. > I understand and agree from my limited knowledge. > I've only played with a couple of RAW files (from a D70 user) as an educational exercise, but is it not only adding a channel mix > choice to the workflow? Meanwhile still preserving all of the RGB info as options? > Maybe I'm being too simplistic, but is the sensor capture fundamentally not b/w, with filters/alterations applied to produce the > three channels? > I can't see that actually being commercially viable to pursue but I can see b/w as a minority output choice, being most versatile > coming from the three channels. Maybe I'm just overly b/w from colour scan fixated? > I really want to understand better. > All knowledge is golden, someone wise said. > > Cheers > Hoppy