D-lux b&w

[david@blumenfeld.com]

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This may be a silly question...When I shoot in b/w mode with my new D-lux in RAW, then go to open in Photoshope c4 with bridge (after downloading and loading the updated plugin), the images come up in COLOR, not b&w...does that make sense? Is there a way to bring them up in b&w, as I shot them?

[ho_co]

David--not a silly question at all. It's one a lot of us have asked.

 

The idea of RAW is to capture everything the sensor saw, so the image is always in color. That gives you the most latitude to make changes, shifting the color, converting to black-and-white, etc.

 

Setting to b&w will turn out black-and-white JPGs. A number of earlier cameras automatically made a JPG when they recorded a RAW image, so some folks set to RAW and black-and-white, using the JPG as a reminder that they had intended this image to be black-and-white.

 

However, there have been a couple threads here on getting strange results from D-Lux 4 RAWs when using its enhanced black-and-white modes. If you set to Dynamic B&W, for example, I think they said you get a green RAW file. Apparently the camera applies a green software filter to the input to get the 'dynamic' JPG, and writes the green file to RAW as well.

 

Not a silly question, but apparently the tip of an iceberg!