[Leica] Re BW modes

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

BD,

There is a website of a guy who actually has one, maybe the only one, and he 
has nothing but praise for it.  Unfortunately I forgot the web address.  ;-(

Gene


-------------- Original message from "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com>: 
-------------- 


> I'm arguing against bw capture, Hoppy. However, IF it were possible to 
> have 
> bw RAW capture , it would cut down considerably on post-capture image 
> work. 
> Kodak back when announced a BW only DSLR - 18 mgp, bw only. But it turned 
> out to be the filmiest of vaporware. 
> 
> 
> On 9/15/06 12:23 AM, "G Hopkinson" wrote: 
> 
> > 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" 
> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group 
> >> To: Leica Users Group 
> >> 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" 
> >> 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 
> >>> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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