Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, First, you're lucky if you can have a color film in you camera and still shoot B&W subjects. I'm really unable to do that. I have tried several times (I used color neg films) and never succeeded. Either I'm in color mode, either in B&W mode but not both. Strangely enough, if I have two cameras, no problem. Am I alone to be that impaired? Second, and it may be related to the first point, desaturated pictures are not as strong as real B&W pictures. I found that the "Convert to gray scale" command gives better results but I have to make a really good picture with this method. Again, it may perfectly be a personal limitation. Just try.... - -- Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com) Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE) Lyon, France http://www.jcberger.com > > but since I'll be scanning the negatives I'm thinking that I could > > always de-saturate colour negatives if something looked better in > > black and white. > > This is something I've also considered. If you're going to scan in > the images, other than ease of development, what advantages are there > to using B&W film? It seems to me like if I shoot with color, I can > use Photoshop to convert the image to black and white. In fact, I can > shoot without any filters on my lens, and then adjust the tonality by > color channel in Photoshop so that the end effect is as if I had used > a color filter on the lens, except I don't lose any light. > > This is complete speculation, though. I don't have a scanner (yet). > So I haven't tried this, but it seems like it would work. What's > wrong with my thinking? >