Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/10

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Subject: [Leica] B&W visualization
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:32:55 +0530
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I am forever trying to get colour images first, and only if I cannot I
try B&W. On the other hand I walk around everywhere with dark glasses
with polarized lenses so I know when a polarizing filter is useful,
especially for puffy clouds...(-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:
> You guys are way too intellectual. I look at the picture in LR. I click on 
> the B&W. If it looks better than color, I go with that. Otherwise not. Or 
> if there are ugly color casts that I cannot easily get rid of, then B&W.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> On Dec 9, 2013, at 4:34 PM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:
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>> I was just curious.  I know there are a lot of people who
>> convert their shots to B&W, and was wondering if they could actually
>> visualize the world in B&W literally using an EVF.
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>> Aram
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>> Old time cinematographers viewed a scene through a deep purple filter to 
>> wash out the color and see what it would look like in B&W. One was even 
>> incorporated in the viewfinder of the early Robot cameras. If you want to 
>> find one simply go to the oldest photo store in town and ask the oldest 
>> clerk if her has one in the junk box. I'm sure any deep colored camera 
>> filter will give much the same effect.
>> Larry Z
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com) ([Leica] B&W visualization)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] B&W visualization)