Black and White Mode?

[shietface]

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I am borrowing someone's leica m8 for a project and I am not able to find the black and white mode on the camera.

 

Can someone please help me locate this settting on the camera?

 

The sharpening, contrast, saturation are all disabled how do I change this setting?

[trs]

You need to choose image type to JPG or DNG+JPG. Then you have option to set color to B&W.

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[shietface]

You need to choose image type to JPG or DNG+JPG. Then you have option to set color to B&W.

 

Thank you so much that works great. Thank you.

[chris_livsey]

You are aware that by using that mode you will only get a jpeg output ? For best results you should shoot RAW and convert to BW after. You can shoot RAW + jpeg so you will see a BW preview, as the above poster mentioned and can use either jpeg or RAW after but that is a bit slower saving if you need to shoot a rapid sequence. Chosen careful the BW settings are good but the jpeg quality is not the best if you need to print above 10 x 8 or less if you are sensitive to the artifacts.

[john_newell]

You are aware that by using that mode you will only get a jpeg output ? For best results you should shoot RAW and convert to BW after. You can shoot RAW + jpeg so you will see a BW preview, as the above poster mentioned and can use either jpeg or RAW after but that is a bit slower saving if you need to shoot a rapid sequence. Chosen careful the BW settings are good but the jpeg quality is not the best if you need to print above 10 x 8 or less if you are sensitive to the artifacts.

 

 

I agree. I tried B&W in the camera - got much, much better results (to my eye) by working with the color raw file in Lightroom.

[Double Negative]

You are aware that by using that mode you will only get a jpeg output ? For best results you should shoot RAW and convert to BW after. You can shoot RAW + jpeg so you will see a BW preview, as the above poster mentioned and can use either jpeg or RAW after but that is a bit slower saving if you need to shoot a rapid sequence. Chosen careful the BW settings are good but the jpeg quality is not the best if you need to print above 10 x 8 or less if you are sensitive to the artifacts.

 

I agree as well. Shoot DNG, convert in post. Much better quality and flexibility in tweaking the image during import.

 

Though I have to say, I've gotten some decent shots in B+W JPEG mode.

[esquire53]

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you would also loose the feature to reproduce any (glass) color filter effects if you use JPEG

Edited January 31, 2010 by esquire53

[AbbeyPhoto]

I think ( I may be wrong ) that if you shoot DNG + JPEG in B&W mode that the DNG will still be a colour file, although the preview will be B&W. It's useful for judging what your image will look like in mono, but the best conversion (in my opinion anyway) is using Nik Silver Efex plugin in Lightroom