[Leica] Leica M8 hands on

[leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)]

Just wondering since Epson had that BW mode with RAW. Oh well, been
converting color to BW for years now. Would be nice to have a RAW BW though,
considering how much BW is captured with Leicas.

Yeah, I've got my RAW conversions down to 3 hrs for about 1000 images. Now
if my PC was faster........

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen"
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M8 hands on


> Any camera's BW mode is and has to be jpg-only, Chris - unless someone has
a
> tiff bw mode I don't know about. RAW gives you what the sensor captures,
no
> more, no less - jpg gives you a combination of more and less, because it
> gives you added sharpness, color adjustments, etc., but you lose some
> dynamic range. As good as some built in bw modes are - and the one Olympus
> has in the E330 and E500 is terrific, and I have no reason to assume it
> isn't just as good in the M - you're still much better off shooting raw
and
> converting yourself. A tad slower in the end, but much more satisfying.
>
> B.D.