Shooting in monochrome with Q1

[bulentacar]

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Hi, Started shooting in monochrome today and initially the viewfinder showed scene in B&W and then at one point switched to colour.Now I've uploaded them to Lightroom and the thumbnails in the library are B&W but when I open the image it is in colour. Don't understand what happened here. I'd appreciate any help with this.

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[marchyman]

The viewfinder shows the result of the processed image according to your in camera settings.   The thumbnail stored in the raw image file is also the processed image.   The raw data is unprocessed; it contain R, G, and B data that must be processed into an image.

Lightroom uses the B&W thumbnail stored in the raw image file until it has a chance to generate its own thumbnails and previews.  The generated images use the raw data which includes color.   If you want to use the camera generated B&W image save both raw and jpegs.   The jpeg versions will be the camera processed B&W images.   In my opinion you can do better using lightroom to convert to B&W.

[prk60091]

1 hour ago, marchyman said:

In my opinion you can do better using lightroom to convert to B&W.

Of course *you* can -- everyones post processing skills are not the same.  Additionally 'shooting' in monochrome helps you see in monochrome.

[Le Chef]

There are three simple ways to handle this:

1) Shoot RAW only, but in the JPEG setting below in the menu, set it to B&W. That way you can "see" in B&W but have the option in C1 or LR to keep the image in color or convert to B&W using something like Silver EfexPro2

2) Shoot RAW + JPEG, and select B&W from the menu for JPEG. When you look at the files you will have high quality RAW images and B&W JPEGs for social media.

3) Shoot JPEG only and set it for B&W

Edited February 4, 2020 by Le Chef

[marchyman]

On 2/3/2020 at 12:17 PM, prk60091 said:

Additionally 'shooting' in monochrome helps you see in monochrome.

Yes.  Which is why my Q is set for monochrome.  Still, I shoot DNG only.  If I want the final image in B&W I do so in post processing.  I don't think it takes any skill to click on a single button to create a B&W image that is no worse than produced by the camera.   You don't have to do any further adjustments.

[jwillyf]

I was shooting today with the JPEG option set to monochrome. Like you, I found the screen suddenly showing colour which perplexed me.

I discovered that pressing the centre button of the four way switch cycles the display from mono to colour plus one other display I cannot remember. This I must have inadvertently done.

In short, if JPEG is set to mono and at some stage shows colour, try pressing the centre button

[bulentacar]

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On 2/4/2020 at 9:35 PM, marchyman said:

Yes.  Which is why my Q is set for monochrome.  Still, I shoot DNG only.  If I want the final image in B&W I do so in post processing.  I don't think it takes any skill to click on a single button to create a B&W image that is no worse than produced by the camera.   You don't have to do any further adjustments.

Thank you all. I am now sorted.