Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Most digicams with a bw mode achieve it by simply doing a 'forced dump' of the color information...from rgb to gray scale. That's what Photoshop does if you go to Image - Mode - and convert...it cuts the file size by about 2/3 throwing out the color info...And the resulting image does not look like "real" black and white....But it is possible to use the channel mixer in Photoshop to make an RGB file look like bw..there are some commercially available actions that do this extremely... The new Olympus 5060, 5 mgp p&s, appears to take the later road to producing b&w images in the camera. Set it to b&W and you can view and shoot as though it was a camera with b&w film..(in effect). And when you download you find that you have rgb b&w images that are the same file size as the regular color images. And when I run those images through one of the commercial actions, they don't change in appearance, which suggests to me that the Oly engineers have, in effect, built such an action into the camera. What this means is that you can use this little delive to shoot "real" b&w...and I then said I hope they are going to add something like this feature to the E-1 DSLR.... I hope that explanation is clearer..... B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Clive Moss Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:49 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] My Leica M digital solution B. D. Colen said the following on 11/3/2003 8:15 AM: > it has a "real" b&w mode...not a forced dump > of color info, but rgb b&w 12.? I don't understand what you mean. - -- Clive http://clive.moss.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html