Questions re: Capture One and my new D-LUX4

[Richard D]

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I'm so confused that I'm not even sure how to ask, but here goes:

 

First: I just shot a few photos in dynamic b&w, and specified that they each be in RAW and high-quality JPEG. Why is it that only the jpegs are in b&w? When I bring them into Capture One and select an individual image, it turns into a color image.

 

Second: Somehow, at some point I must have pressed 'yes' when asked if I wanted to take my images from the SDHCplus card directly into CaptureOne. Well, I'd rather not do that- how do I get the card NOT to load into CaptureOne? Hope this makes sense.

 

I've struggled with both these issues for a while now, and can't make sense of either. Help......:-(

[ho_co]

Richard--Capture One is a little hard to figure out, so I'm like the blind leading the blind.

 

1) I haven't done a JPG+RAW combination, but here's my guess: RAW always has full color, simply because it is getting the more or less full output of the sensor. You can convert to black-and-white in post-processing by a number of means--but I haven't done anything like that in Capture One, so someone else would have to guide you there. (There's probably a saturation setting that you can set to 0, though that won't give you as much control as other ways.)

 

The JPGs should be black-and-white if you have them set up that way from the camera. But again, that's the general case and I haven't tried it with Capture One and the D-Lux 4. With some programs (Lightroom for example) the JPG is hidden if a RAW file of the same name is present. I think the program assumes that since it's a RAW processor, you probably want to work on the RAW file, because (it assumes) the JPG was already finished.

 

2) Had same problem with Capture One loading automatically. My solution was to make sure Capture One isn't running when I insert a card. Instead, I copy the files from the card to a particular folder ("from D-Lux 4" in my case). Then I start Capture One and under the File menu choose "Import files...." The first time I did that, I selected the "from D-Lux 4" folder; now the program goes there by default.

 

Maybe (I haven't tried it) if you choose a folder to import from you could leave Capture One running and it would then not pay attention to the card reader, but watch the folder you previously imported from.

 

 

I hope that helps. More than that, I hope someone familiar with the arcana of Capture One chimes in so we can both learn.

 

Keep us posted!

[Richard D]

Howard,

Thanks for the reply. In the CaptureOne tutorial, the instructor/narrator turns a color image into a b&w by dropping the saturation to zero and increasing the contrast a bit. But I'm still perplexed because the browser images in CaptureOne are in b&w. It's only when you 'select' a particular image that it turns into color. Doesn't that seem bizarre??

Rich

[miami91]

Howard,

Thanks for the reply. In the CaptureOne tutorial, the instructor/narrator turns a color image into a b&w by dropping the saturation to zero and increasing the contrast a bit. But I'm still perplexed because the browser images in CaptureOne are in b&w. It's only when you 'select' a particular image that it turns into color. Doesn't that seem bizarre??

Rich

 

This is to be expected. The browser uses a jpeg thumbnail image embedded in the RAW for display. Almost all image programs do this for the speed of loading the small file. If it had to load the native RAW just to show you the available images, the screen draw time would be noticeably slower.

 

Jeff.

[Richard D]

Jeff,

I'm sorry. I didn't make myself clear, and am not sure I can do so now, but let me try again...... The browser (or thumbnail, if you prefer) images 'shot by the camera in b&w' are in b&w. And the browser images shot in color are in color in the browser. But when I 'select' the b&w image it turns to color. Color images are in color in the browser AND in the 'selected' image. Hope this makes more sense.

[Richard D]

Is it that you just can't shoot a RAW image in black and white?

[ho_co]

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Yes, Richard, that's right. All RAW images are color because they are the RAW data from the sensor. So far, I don't think anyone has produced a black-and-white sensor for a consumer camera.

[Richard D]

Yes, Richard, that's right. All RAW images are color because they are the RAW data from the sensor. So far, I don't think anyone has produced a black-and-white sensor for a consumer camera.

Thanks, Howard. I guess now I can finally stop trying to make b&w RAWs............:-)

Rich.