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Most of the time I am taking pictures in color and in raw, afterwards I change them towards B&W with lightroom. I am making use of Leica M 240 and Leica X type 113.

 

 

 

But both cameras has also a possibility to take pictures in black and white. I have no experience with this.

 

 

 

What is your opinion the best and whY?

 

- take raw photos and transfer it to B&W with Lightroom or make use of the B&W filter in the camera?

 

 

 

Curious what you all think about this!?

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I am unfamiliar with the X camera, but in the case of the 240 and I assume in the case of the X the option to take in B & W is not RAW, but a jpg file. Given that fact, I would be inclined to stick to RAW, and convert because the RAW file gives you more control over the conversion.

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Most of the time I am taking pictures in color and in raw, afterwards I change them towards B&W with lightroom. I am making use of Leica M 240 and Leica X type 113.

 

 

 

But both cameras has also a possibility to take pictures in black and white. I have no experience with this.

 

 

 

What is your opinion the best and whY?

 

- take raw photos and transfer it to B&W with Lightroom or make use of the B&W filter in the camera?

 

 

 

Curious what you all think about this!?

 

Just try it out - shoot raw+B&W JPG and compare results...

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Basically, Raw files will always have greater potential for optimum image and tonal quality than in-camera filtered Jpegs. What you are judging is your post-processing skills versus the camera. With a little learning it is possible to produce excellent monochrome pictures from Raw. Once you add in a plug-in filter like Nik Silver Efex Pro 2, you could be amazed. But don't just leap into that method before you have worked within LR.

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