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wlaidlaw · 04/14/07, 08:46 PM

Excuse me if this has been asked before but a search for the answer produced nothing of note. Is there any difference and/or advantage, if I take a photo in DNG + JPEG fine with the M8 set to black and white on the colour menu or leaving in normal colour, converting the DNG and then discarding the colour information, when I import the TIFF image into Photoshop. I assume not, since the DNG always seems to be in colour, although the JPEG is in black and white. If you were taking JPEG only, would there then be an advantage in taking in B&W, rather than discarding the colour information at a later stage? It is important to me as about 30%+ of my big prints are in B&W or tinted B&W (sepia, cyanide, pseudo IR, Platinum, etc).

Wilson

04/14/07, 08:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
wlaidlaw Erfahrener Benutzer Join Date: 12/19/04 Location: Tourtour, France and Sussex UK Posts: 1,925	Black and White on an M8 Excuse me if this has been asked before but a search for the answer produced nothing of note. Is there any difference and/or advantage, if I take a photo in DNG + JPEG fine with the M8 set to black and white on the colour menu or leaving in normal colour, converting the DNG and then discarding the colour information, when I import the TIFF image into Photoshop. I assume not, since the DNG always seems to be in colour, although the JPEG is in black and white. If you were taking JPEG only, would there then be an advantage in taking in B&W, rather than discarding the colour information at a later stage? It is important to me as about 30%+ of my big prints are in B&W or tinted B&W (sepia, cyanide, pseudo IR, Platinum, etc). Wilson