Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lawrence Zeitlin offered: Subject: [Leica] IMG: Would we still shoot in B&W if color had been inventedfirst? > Sometimes color IS the content. There would be little merit to this > photograph in B&W. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Color+as+content.JPG.html > Larry Z Hi Larry, Absolutely! Despite I always say... "Real Photographers' Shoot B&W. Eat Sushi and drink Single malt Scotch! There are times when obviously this would be an error. Shooting in B&W! Because the colour of the situation dictates shooting colour. The rest would be OK. :-) All my tourism assignments were shot in colour as that's what the ad agencies required, after all a bright glorious sunshine day at the beach with semi clothed bathers basking in sunlight and wild blue skies is far more effective in brilliant colour compared to B&W. Generally the assignment or client dictated film type. That didn't mean if I saw something I thought would work as a B&W I passed it by. Ones common sense dictated you shot both. ERGO one of the reasons too "ALWAYS" carry 4 or 5 Leica camera bodies. Today of course digital makes it a piece of cake shoot whatever and convert colour to B&W unless there's a camera one can set B&W only. Digilux 2 for example. And quite possibly many others. Dr. ted