[Leica] C8080

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

EXCELLENT point, Ted, which I'll admit I hadn't thought about - DOH! But
shooting this way does mean really "seeing" in b&w not just capturing
images on mono stock. It wasn't something I thought about with this one
shot, although I was struck by how 'right' the scene looked. When I've
used the C5050 and C5060 in black and white mode the shadows were more
blocked up, and it didn't look right.

Now, will be produce more soul-filled photos? It'll be interesting to
see. The thing that particularly excites me about this is that I know
Olympus was muttering about hoping to have a b&w mode on the next
iteration of the E-1, and what they've done with this in the C8080
indicates to me that they have software folks who are really thinking
about this in a serious way; this clearly is not just the in-camera
equivalent of a photoshop "convert to grayscale" - it's very close to
the Fred Miranda conversion....

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Ted Grant
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] C8080


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


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