Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/02

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Subject: [Leica] Re: B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Mon Oct 2 19:58:00 2006
References: <4cfa589b0610021806m8b185b4g8a71c33b24804dff@mail.gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20061002213930.02620238@infoave.net>
 
This discussion has gone on for what, 4 weeks now?

RAW is RAW, BW is BW. One camera for color, one for BW. I'm for it.

Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tina Manley" 
Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?


> I don't understand why anybody would want a B&W version over a RAW 
> version.  RAW is the negative.  You can develop it any way you 
> want.  Once it's been developed as B&W, you can't redevelop it for 
> highlights or shadows or anything else.  Why would you want 
> that?  RAW has all of the information that the camera captures.  B&W 
> only would throw away most of this information. Are you going to 
> depend on the camera software to develop the negative for you? It 
> doesn't make sense to make a B&W only camera!
> 
> Tina
Replies: Reply from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Re: B&W only version of M8 - anyone else hear this?)
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