Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/06

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Subject: [Leica] B/W conversion
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 21:43:19 +0530
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Photoshop is the best if you are not willing to use Silver Efex
Pro....there are any number of free actions available. I just checked and
found that I still have about 20 B&W actions, so if anybody wants them,
drop me a line off list.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Sonny, I think you're right but I'm not sure.
>
> --Bob
>
> p.s. I have found plugins such as SilverEfexPro2 to be very easy to use,
> and that in the context of I'm not very good at PhotoShop.
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > I think that the in camera bw, you're limited to JPEG output.  My choice
> > would be converting in PS, and if you really get into it you can get
> > plugins that will emulate many emulsions.
> >
> > I could be wrong about this, but I might be mistaken about being possibly
> > wrong.
> >
> > from my iPad
> >
> > Sonny Carter
> >
> > > On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Stan Yoder <s.yoder at comcast.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Folks, Which is the better way to convert color to B/W:  in Photoshop,
> > in the printer, or use the B/W provision of the camera (M240) in the
> first
> > place? I don't need the high-end solutions of specialized software or
> inks.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Stan Yoder
> > >
> > >
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In reply to: Message from s.yoder at comcast.net (Stan Yoder) ([Leica] B/W conversion)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] B/W conversion)
Message from robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron) ([Leica] B/W conversion)