Black and White photos

[Sajal Sthapit]

Is there a way to take B/W photos on Canon EOS-10D?
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Sajal Sthapit
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[dukefleming]

No, you can't take them on the camera, but you can convert them in photoshop to B&W. If you do a search on Black and White (or B&W) you will find several threads about how to do it. I found a free program to download on one of these threads.

Duke

Is there a way to take B/W photos on Canon EOS-10D?
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Sajal Sthapit
http://www.geocities.com/srsthapit

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Duke

 

[Sheila Smart]

Is there a way to take B/W photos on Canon EOS-10D?
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Sajal Sthapit
http://www.geocities.com/srsthapit

I'm not familiar with the 10D but I would say no (I can't with my D60 and I believe the 10D is a similar breed!). The only successful way is to put it through Photoshop or other imaging program.

Cheers
Sheila

Sheila Smart
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name - Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

 

[Bjarne B. Dollerup]

Nope,

The best approach is to use Photoshop (PS) or something similar. I use PS regularly to do just that.

I load the image in PS and convert it from RGB to LAB, select only the Lightness channel and select Grayscale from the menu.

Then do Level, curves, etc. You now have a great BW image!

Regards,
Bjarned

 

[Donovan]

Duke and Sheila have answered you as for the 10D.

However, it should be said that there is no advantage to shooting B&W in cameras that can shoot B&W. All digicams that do shoot B&W save the files as RGB files anyway and therefore the file sizes are no smaller than full color files. You are always better off converting on your computer, this way you always have the option of printing the image in color. But you cant make a color image from an image shot as B&W.

Is there a way to take B/W photos on Canon EOS-10D?
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Sajal Sthapit
http://www.geocities.com/srsthapit

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Donovan

 

[Sheila Smart]

Is there a way to take B/W photos on Canon EOS-10D?
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Sajal Sthapit
http://www.geocities.com/srsthapit

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Donovan

May I also suggest that you look at using Fred Miranda's black and white actions - http://www.fredmiranda.com and go the Software section. They can only be used for Photoshop 6 and up but they save a lot of time in Photoshop. I also use his actions for sharpening for the same reason.

Cheers
Sheila

Sheila Smart
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name - Thomas Osbert Mordaunt