M8 vs. mental health: capturing B&W images

[grober]

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I may be losing what little wits I had left ...

 

How does one set the M8 to capture B&W and not color? Should be under the color saturation option, right?

 

What's the secret here? For me, the "color saturation" option remains resolutely grayed out and unavailable.

 

Anyone?

 

-g

[DaveEP]

How does one set the M8 to capture B&W and not color? Should be under the color saturation option, right?

What's the secret here? For me, the "color saturation" option remains resolutely grayed out and unavailable.

 

You need to be shooting in a mode that records a JPG to have that menu enabled. RAW files will ALWAYS record colour, and it is assumed you will want to tinker with the B&W conversion yourself.

[carstenw]

Note that as a side-effect, if you turn your recording mode to JPG or DNG+JPG, then change the colour saturation to B&W, and then turn the recording mode back to DNG, you will still see previews in B&W. If you then review the pictures, they will initially show up in B&W, but after a few seconds, the colours will show (probably as the view switches from the little JPG in the header of the DNG to showing the DNG itself). I find this quite handy when I want to shoot in B&W, because I never really want the full JPG images. I just find that they get in the way.

[fotografr]

That's a great thread title. You could just as easily say, Digital vs. mental health. Better yet, how about, Computers vs. mental health?

[Enoteca]

How does one set the M8 to capture B&W and not color? Should be under the color saturation option, right?

-g

 

It's very easy. As was just mentioned here, DNGs comes always with all colour-information.

You switch first from only DNG to JPG. Then you change to the menu and select your black+white-option.

That done you can get back to set DNG plus JPG (fine or whatever).

This allows you to have both and not to loose any possibility to develop your pictures in DNG. You must notice, that the reviews on the camera-monitor will now ever appear in b+w.

Reading for example the camera-files via card-reader into your computer, you will see under the same number "L1000xxx.dng" and "L1000xxx.jpg".

Without developing the DNGs you may have a first look on your pictures as JPG (with Windows for example) and decide, how to proceed, delete or whatever.

 

Hope this helps.

Manfred, Magenta-Forest

[carstenw]

Manfred, if you select DNG+JPG, you can still set B&W mode. There is no need to switch to JPG mode first. It is only if you want to go back to DNG only in B&W that you need to switch mode twice.

[Enoteca]

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Manfred, if you select DNG+JPG, you can still set B&W mode. There is no need to switch to JPG mode first. It is only if you want to go back to DNG only in B&W that you need to switch mode twice.

 

Carsten,

you are right. Sorry for my superfluous post. I didn't read yours, as I was just writing mine (Old man, to slowly in mind and typing).

Best greetings

Manfred

[grober]

You need to be shooting in a mode that records a JPG to have that menu enabled. RAW files will ALWAYS record colour, and it is assumed you will want to tinker with the B&W conversion yourself.

 

Thank you, David. I usually shoot RAW and didn't consider its need for JPG.

 

Duh.

 

-g

[sean_reid]

To get B&W LCD images I set the camera to RAW (which I've decided should be an acronym for "Really Awesome Workflow" thereby allowing us to keep capitalizing it as I like to do) plus the smallest, most basic JPEG possible. That wastes little SD card space and also gives me some quick JPEGs to review without converting files.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean