M-P Shooting in B/W Downloading in colour?

[ramarren]

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No, set to DNG + JPG fine. It makes no sense to throw away data that you will need when you have learned to process your images better than the in-camera JPG. -Which shouldn't take too much effort.-

 

Get away from Photos - it really does not do the file from your camera justice. I would get Photoshop Elements in your position.

 

 

Actually, Photos has a very good raw converter for Leica files ... the same one used in Aperture. The editing controls in Photos take a bit to learn but are all there, and in some ways work better than the Camera Raw plugin used in basic mode in Photoshop Elements. 

 

That said, I use Lightroom and prefer it over other image processing software. Capture with the camera set to JPEG + raw, then set the LR option to treat JPEG and raw as separate files: when you import your photos, you'll have both the in-camera JPEG and the raw file to work with so you can see what the camera did in its B&W rendering and then process the raw file to match or improve upon it. 

[Stealth3kpl]

Great, having the choice, which one would you use?

Get Lightroom.

Pete

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[maxtimperley]

Actually, Photos has a very good raw converter for Leica files ... the same one used in Aperture. The editing controls in Photos take a bit to learn but are all there, and in some ways work better than the Camera Raw plugin used in basic mode in Photoshop Elements. 

 

That said, I use Lightroom and prefer it over other image processing software. Capture with the camera set to JPEG + raw, then set the LR option to treat JPEG and raw as separate files: when you import your photos, you'll have both the in-camera JPEG and the raw file to work with so you can see what the camera did in its B&W rendering and then process the raw file to match or improve upon it. 

Thank you very much

[jmahto]

Lightroom. Simple. It makes whole workflow so easy to manage.