[Leica] M9 RAW's and B&W

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

Erik,

Unfortunately I cannot help you, as I shoot dng only and then convert to b&w 
in photoshop.  I do not shoot both dng and jpeg at the same time.  Are you 
sure you are downloading the dng and not just the jpeg?  Seems strange that 
all you see is the jpeg settings when you look at them (.dng) in the 
computer.

Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik van der Meulen" <erik at avondel.com>
To: lug at leica-users.org
Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2010 1:03:02 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [Leica] M9 RAW's and B&W

Dear knowledgeable Leica-group,

I seem to be missing something in the way my M9 handles RAW's.

As long as I keep my 'Compression' setting fixed on 'DNG', I have no means
of altering the 'Color saturation' setting. This remains on 'Standard'. This
seems to me 'normal behavior'; I get the 'raw' data from the sensor.

Now this get interesting; I followed the suggestion found on
http://www.overgaard.dk/leica-M9-digital-rangefinder-camera.html to set the
'Compression' to 'DNG & JPG' and the 'Color saturation' to 'Black & White'.
This way the screen on the M9 nicley shows B&W images which I have shot. I
was under the assumption that this came from the JPG files recorded along
with the DNG.

I have no need for the JPG's other than the preview function, I want to do
the actual B&W conversion manually in Lightroom on the DNG. So I delete the
JPG's before I import the DNG's files into Lightroom. Much to my surprise in
the import dialog window, the pictures do show up in B&W! Only after the
import they seem to be converted to colored pictures.

Now what puzzles me is that I would have expected a DNG file to be the same,
no matter that the camera saturation settings would be. Further, if this is
not the case (as it indeed appears), how come I can only make adjustments in
relation to JPG settings on the camera?

Obviously I am missing something here. If anyone can point me in the proper
direction, that would be greatly appreciated!

-- 
 Erik van der Meulen
 <erik at avondel dot com>

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