[Leica] M9 RAW's and B&W

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Think of the DNG as your negative.  It records exactly what the camera sees,
no more, no less.  Changing any settings(except exposure) does not change
the DNG file.  The saturation, etc., choices are only for jpegs, which you
really don't want to use, since that is the equivalent of a drugstore print
with all other information discarded.

Tina

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Erik van der Meulen <erik at 
avondel.com>wrote:

> Dear knowledgeable Leica-group,
>
> I seem to be missing something in the way my M9 handles RAW's.
>
> As long as I keep my 'Compression' setting fixed on 'DNG', I have no means
> of altering the 'Color saturation' setting. This remains on 'Standard'.
> This
> seems to me 'normal behavior'; I get the 'raw' data from the sensor.
>
> Now this get interesting; I followed the suggestion found on
> http://www.overgaard.dk/leica-M9-digital-rangefinder-camera.html to set
> the
> 'Compression' to 'DNG & JPG' and the 'Color saturation' to 'Black & White'.
> This way the screen on the M9 nicley shows B&W images which I have shot. I
> was under the assumption that this came from the JPG files recorded along
> with the DNG.
>
> I have no need for the JPG's other than the preview function, I want to do
> the actual B&W conversion manually in Lightroom on the DNG. So I delete the
> JPG's before I import the DNG's files into Lightroom. Much to my surprise
> in
> the import dialog window, the pictures do show up in B&W! Only after the
> import they seem to be converted to colored pictures.
>
> Now what puzzles me is that I would have expected a DNG file to be the
> same,
> no matter that the camera saturation settings would be. Further, if this is
> not the case (as it indeed appears), how come I can only make adjustments
> in
> relation to JPG settings on the camera?
>
> Obviously I am missing something here. If anyone can point me in the proper
> direction, that would be greatly appreciated!
>
> --
>  Erik van der Meulen
>  <erik at avondel dot com>
>
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