Is this possible?

[Judatu]

A friend of mine shoots with a Cannon and has his LCD display set to black and white when reviewing his photos.

Does anyone know if this is possible with a D600 and if so, how to do it?

I've had no luck finding an answer online or searching through the camera settings. Its very frustrating.

 

[Scott Murray]

Are you saying that he sets it to show the over exposed areas and the under exposed areas? Or that he has desaturated his LCD?

 

[Judatu]

Desaturated screen I guess. Can you do that on a D600?

 

[Scott Murray]

Desaturated screen I guess. Can you do that on a D600?

Why would you want to? If you want a b&w photo you can change it in camera, that way you can still have colour.

 

[Just-Clayton]

He probably has the camera set to monochrome on the picture control. I just set it and the viewing is B/W.

 

[nickt]

If you set your jpg to monochrome you will get that, but you would want to shoot raw or you will be stuck with a b&w jpg. I'm curious what he learns from the b&w.

 

[BackdoorArts]

I'm with Clayton. To do this on the D600, choose Monochrome in the Set Picture Control dialogue in the Shooting menu. As long as you're shooting RAW you'll still get a color image. When you go to process, however, the software you use may apply the camera profile you used and display it as black and white, so you can either override/ignore it on input, or change it in Camera RAW.

 

[Judatu]

Thanks guys, i just tried it and it works. I also just viewed some shots i took in RAW into lightroom and they became colour photos after I finished importing them.

My friend said he has his screen in black and white so that he can better see the lighting in the photo without the distraction of colours. He's a pro photographer and has been spot on with advice in the past, so i thought i'd give it a go.

 

[nickt]

Interesting. Yes, lightroom will briefly show you the embedded jpg in the raw file until it fully loads.