On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Worse still IMHO is that you must accept the b&w rendering that the >> camera applies. That's like using a single film only for all your >> shooting and seems awfully limiting. With a colour camera you can use >> any of dozens of possible conversion techniques from RAW to b&w and so >> get a lot more artistic control over the process. > > Respectfully, Bruce, that's not true. If you read the B&H reviews, > many people still enjoy using Silver Efex Pro to do their own > rendering from the RAW files (which still contain way more information > than a mere JPEG does). You've got all kind of creativity left there.
After the camera has tonally mapped all the colour info into a grayscale file though, no matter how many bits you have, even 16, you still have lost the ability to creatively map the colour yourself. About all that Silver Efex can do for you at that point is contrast, curves, levels and sharpening/blurring/"structure" etc. Whereas with the colour info intact you can create pseudo IR images if you want. Yes, you can use colour filters on the lens to get back some control. But still not as much as the raw colour output from un-neutered cameras. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
