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Subject: [Leica] IMG:Summitar color vs BW
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue May 15 13:21:48 2007
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When I was working with Photoshop, I would use the Fred Miranda plugin 
to convert to B&W. Now that I work in Lightroom, I just click on 
"grayscale" in the Develop module and get a far superior conversion to 
the plain "convert to grayscale" in Photoshop. And if I want to tweak 
it, nothing could be easier. Want a darker sky? No problem, just slide 
the blue slider to the left. And so on. Lightroom is really great for B&W.

Nathan

Leonard Taupier wrote:
> I was just playing around in my front yard taking a few sots with the 
> M8 and Summitar.
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> The next two images are the same except the BW photo is simply the 
> color shot desaturated in CS2. There is no post processing of either 
> picture except for the desaturation. I thought it was interesting to 
> see the Summitar images in color and BW and which photo is better shot 
> with the Summitar.
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> Photo: M8, Summitar at f8, ISO 160, WB daylight.
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> Color
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> http://tinyurl.com/2dwmsr
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> BW
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> http://tinyurl.com/27qenk
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> Comments are welcome. As I only shoot color in my M8, is there a 
> better way to convert to BW? All my BW photos are with film since I 
> like the look of film and I enjoy my own developing and using older 
> cameras and lenses.
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> Len
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