Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This discussion has gone on for what, 4 weeks now? RAW is RAW, BW is BW. One camera for color, one for BW. I'm for it. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this? > I don't understand why anybody would want a B&W version over a RAW > version. RAW is the negative. You can develop it any way you > want. Once it's been developed as B&W, you can't redevelop it for > highlights or shadows or anything else. Why would you want > that? RAW has all of the information that the camera captures. B&W > only would throw away most of this information. Are you going to > depend on the camera software to develop the negative for you? It > doesn't make sense to make a B&W only camera! > > Tina