Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/06

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Subject: [Leica] B&W on M8.2...
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:13:57 -0400
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At 04:04 PM 5/6/2009, you wrote:
>My understanding is that if you shoot RAW you have the color chanels 
>available to you. Then when you "convert" to BW in LR or CS, you can 
>use the color chanel sliders to give the same effect as if you added 
>colored filters in front of BW film. If you shoot BW .jpg you do not 
>have that info therefore cannot apply this "filter" technique.
>
>Is that right?
>Thanks,
>Bob

Well, if you shoot jpeg you still have RGB channels, but your ability 
to really change or filter anything is drastically reduced.  Your 
photo has already been "developed" inside the camera.  With RAW, you 
can develop it yourself, using the color channels as filters if you like.

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com 



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