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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Would we still shoot in B&W if color had been inventedfirst?
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:25:58 -0700
References: <6a7544a60909251343x50fbe884w46c68cc4d851979f@mail.gmail.com>

Lawrence Zeitlin offered:
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Would we still shoot in B&W if color had been 
inventedfirst?


> Sometimes color IS the content. There would be little merit to this
> photograph in B&W.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Color+as+content.JPG.html
> Larry Z

Hi Larry,
Absolutely! Despite I always say... "Real Photographers' Shoot B&W. Eat 
Sushi and drink Single malt Scotch! There are times when obviously this 
would be an error. Shooting in B&W! Because the colour of the situation 
dictates shooting colour. The rest would be OK. :-)

All my tourism assignments were shot in colour as that's what the ad 
agencies required, after all a bright glorious sunshine day at the beach 
with semi  clothed bathers basking in sunlight and wild blue skies is far 
more effective in brilliant colour compared to B&W.

Generally the assignment or client dictated film type. That didn't mean if I 
saw something I thought would work as a B&W I passed it by. Ones common 
sense dictated you shot both. ERGO one of the reasons too  "ALWAYS" carry 4 
or 5 Leica camera bodies. Today of course digital makes it a piece of cake 
shoot whatever and convert colour to B&W unless there's a camera one can set 
B&W only. Digilux 2 for example. And quite possibly many others.

Dr. ted


In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] IMG: Would we still shoot in B&W if color had been invented first?)