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Re: OOC Black and White - X100
In reply to nixda,
6 months ago
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nixda wrote:
jeremyo wrote:
I've had my X100 for a week and I'm in love. Actual love. Physical love.
I've been pulling my hair out on the RAW vs. JPEG issue, so today I had a play. In the RAW corner is unlimited flexibility and an incredible safeguard. In the OOC corner comes uncannily good white balance, forget-about-it ease and crazy speed.
Complicating the matter is my puny 1GB SD card (er, it forces me to be thoughtful, it does I swear) and my equally puny but all kinds of lightning-fast laptop SSD, where my collections end up. RAW + JPEG isn't really an option: I don't have that sort of real-estate, and I don't like the way it occupies the camera's brain anyway.
The SD card issue is easy to solve: get bigger ones!
Also, I work with SSDs exclusively as my primary hard drives. However, I never use them to store large quantities of data, that's what conventional hard drives are for (at least these days). I keep my data and images temporarily on the SSDs, then move them off to storage when I'm done.I would be happy to shoot RAW, and I'm sure I will on occasion (why can't there be a third function button, so I can assign RAW mode on-the-fly? oh the irony) but mostly I just want to shoot and forget; know I'll be able to show off the bulk of my photos without spending hours in post-production.
This evening I thought, to hell with it, I'll swallow my photo-nerd pride, load up one of the configurations I'd set earlier, and shoot some black and white pixels.
To be very honest, I think these images are 'improvable'. It might be a matter of taste, though, but I think there are large portions that are way too dark and show little detail. B&W conversions are notoriously tricky. The camera doesn't know what color channels you would want to emphasize. So in many cases, there will be some fiddling necessary afterwards. Then it's up to you whether you want to do that in the camera with its tiny screen or on your computer.
Just got my X100 also. I shoot jpeg but when you want raw for a particular shot press the raw button (bottom right) so that way you get jpeg but can easily get one raw when you want without digging around (thanks to Zack Arias for this tip) Regards, Alan
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