Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: B&W from color
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Tue May 15 18:09:24 2007
References: <200705152350.l4FNnDJK031705@server1.waverley.reid.org>
 
On May 15, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Len wrote:

> 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.


On the subject of B&W - what are the subtle differences between B&W  
images derived from scanning a conventional B&W negative, scanning a  
B&W chromogenic negative, converting a scanned color negative to B&W  
in PS grayscale, converting a digital color image to B&W, and taking  
a B&W image in the camera?

On my 20" iMac monitor, I can't see any real differences between  
images created by the various methods. At least not for those images  
presented on the LUG.

I must confess, I only use conventional film in my Leica and shoot  
digital images in color and rarely make comparison shots of the same  
scene. So i have no personal basis for judgment.

Larry Z