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Every time I switch to B/W in camera I always kick myself for not shooting color and just de-saturating later in PP.

BUT, when I get bored with shooting in color - if I change to B/W I seem to recompose and bring some life back into the shot?

Any thoughts?

And yes this my biggest dilemma at the moment so yea, life is rough :)
 
In this digital age, it's probably (imho) to shoot in colors and convert later. Even if you're seeing the shot in B&W. I think you can do so much more in PP with a color image. I've never looked but does the NEX do color bracketing?
SelectiveAperture said:
Every time I switch to B/W in camera I always kick myself for not shooting color and just de-saturating later in PP.

BUT, when I get bored with shooting in color - if I change to B/W I seem to recompose and bring some life back into the shot?

Any thoughts?

And yes this my biggest dilemma at the moment so yea, life is rough :)
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if you shoot black and white, you're limited to what you can do in post. Shooting in color, you can desaturate, convert to B&W, do a straight gray scale conversion, etc.

If the end result is going to be black and white, that's great...just leave yourself as much creative latitude as you can for post processing
 
Hey - how about a "De-saturate VF" button on one of our future NEX models - you can shoot/REC in color but see vintage B/W comp? :)

Sony, I expect my residuals check in the mail . . . . :)
 
SelectiveAperture said:
Hey - how about a "De-saturate VF" button on one of our future NEX models - you can shoot/REC in color but see vintage B/W comp? :)

Sony, I expect my residuals check in the mail . . . . :)
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I'd like the opposite. I'd like to able to frame in color and have the image review jpeg be in black and white.
 
heynowtest said:
if you shoot raw + jpg you will get a color raw file and a b&w jpg file. it's great!
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Yeah, I know. The problem for me is that I don't like framing in B&W. It doesn't seem natural to me, since any film camera with a regular viewfinder gives you a color view, not a B&W one, and, for me, part of the intrigue is framing in color and ending up with a B&W result. So, oddly enough, I'd like to view in color and output a color RAW for B&W processing, as usual, but I'd like the jpeg review in the camera to be in B&W. Weird, huh? :)
 
Many hjave said it here before me, but the shooting in color, then converting it into B&W is the best option for me. But you are in command behind your camera! Do as some said, shoot RAW and JPEG end enjoy both, or just shoot B&W JPEGS and accept the picture you wanted in color after all. Do what makes you feel happy, that is what it is all about!
 
Because you can vary the colour balance which gives different effects in B/W conversion. Photoshops shows a selection of conversions after pressing B. Anyways, you can decolor your pics at home, but you can't recolor them.
 
headofdestiny said:
heynowtest said:
if you shoot raw + jpg you will get a color raw file and a b&w jpg file. it's great!
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This is what I do.
headofdestiny said:
Yeah, I know. The problem for me is that I don't like framing in B&W. It doesn't seem natural to me, since any film camera with a regular viewfinder gives you a color view, not a B&W one, and, for me, part of the intrigue is framing in color and ending up with a B&W result. So, oddly enough, I'd like to view in color and output a color RAW for B&W processing, as usual, but I'd like the jpeg review in the camera to be in B&W. Weird, huh? :)
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Seems weird to me! ;-) I like framing in B&W. It really is hard for me to think in B&W when I see the color screen. I rarely convert color photos to B&W, but when using B&W framing, I often don't convert to color (using RAW), so I guess it works for me.

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headofdestiny said:
Yeah, I know. The problem for me is that I don't like framing in B&W. It doesn't seem natural to me, since any film camera with a regular viewfinder gives you a color view, not a B&W one, and, for me, part of the intrigue is framing in color and ending up with a B&W result. So, oddly enough, I'd like to view in color and output a color RAW for B&W processing, as usual, but I'd like the jpeg review in the camera to be in B&W. Weird, huh? :)
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Seems like a bit of a daft dilema... just shoot in colour, as you prefer to frame in colour anyway... then you can convert back at home... lightroom and some others will batch prosses all the images to mono in one go if you wanted to... then you can view them in Black and white
OR colour...
 
AxeGrinder said:
AxeGrinder said:
Yeah, I know. The problem for me is that I don't like framing in B&W. It doesn't seem natural to me, since any film camera with a regular viewfinder gives you a color view, not a B&W one, and, for me, part of the intrigue is framing in color and ending up with a B&W result. So, oddly enough, I'd like to view in color and output a color RAW for B&W processing, as usual, but I'd like the jpeg review in the camera to be in B&W. Weird, huh? :)
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Seems like a bit of a daft dilema... just shoot in colour, as you prefer to frame in colour anyway... then you can convert back at home... lightroom and some others will batch prosses all the images to mono in one go if you wanted to... then you can view them in Black and white
OR colour...
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That's what I've done for many years. I'm simply saying it would be a cool feature to be able to separate creative styles from the viewfinder view, especially with the picture filters that appear to be coming with the next firmware.
 
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