Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen said: Subject: RE: [Leica] C8080 > And this, I am stunned to say, was shot in the camera's b&w mode - 320 > iso, 1/13th of a second, f 2.4 - I used PS unsharpen, set at at 15% and > a radius of 55 to bump up the contrast - something I always do with RGB > to b&w conversions. But what this tells me is that I can shoot bw with > this p&s, which I haven't been able to do with others... > http://gallery.leica-users.org/BDCOLENPHOTOS/Ben<<< Hi B. D., I used the B&W mode with the Digilux 2 the other day, at first it seemed weird looking at a B&W world, although interesting through the b&w viewfinder. In the past when we've used any camera the world has been in colour through the viewfinder even though we were recording with B&W film. And it wasn't until after processing did we see our B&W world and the results. Setting the viewfinder and recording to mono I wonder if that'll improve what we put on the B&W disk because now we'll see only in B&W without the distractions of colour? In other words when I say, "When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph them in B&W you photograph their souls!" Will we shoot more "soul showing" pictures because we see it in B&W? Some how I believe it'll be the first thing first... "how the light is working on the subject regardless of seeing it in B&W or colour. " Did you re-act or see any differently while shooting in B&W ? Obviously if the viewfinder was B&W as with the Digil 2 set to B&W? ted