[Leica] C8080

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

 The first video camera I used had a B&W viewfinder
despite being a colourcamera. This was disconcerting
and wierd. The first time one saw the colourwas when
playing back at home.
Frank

--- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > 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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