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Button customization for B+W

Started Feb 21, 2017 | Discussions thread
James O'Neill Veteran Member • Posts: 6,117
Re: Button customization for B+W

SoCalWill wrote:

You should be able to assign a U mode with the Monochrome custom image setting.

Be aware that doing your own B&W in post allows you to make specific colors darker/brighter so that you can dial in how you want the finished product to look, giving the task to the camera just means you get what you get.

I shoot raw, but I think in B&W most of the time.

I don't use the user modes on the K5 or K1 - I just toggle it mono on or off via the 4 way controller. Depending on my mood I'll have it one click to cool tone, or one click to warm tone, and typically have one of the milder filters (e.g. Yellow - Red is too strong).  
Because I have the DNG codec on Windows I can copy the preview out to a JPEG file if I want the "straight from the camera" image 
When  I load the DNG into lightroom, it disregards the preview setting and I can blend colours , set contrast / levels and curves as I want (and obviously process the image as colour! ) , I've created presets  to mimic the in-camera settings. I can adjust from there.

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