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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 422693" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>In the broadest sense I 'm going to say yes because a good Black and White photo, in the sense we're discussing this as photographers, is not simply a photo that lacks color, there's a LOT more to good black and white images than that. Somewhat oddly, many photographers do not realize ALL digital photos are, inherently, black and white: color is a function of the output device ONLY. Whether it's the LCD on the back of your camera, your computer at home or the printer that output your print, color was produced by the output device. You actual digital photo is just that: digital. 1's and 0's. Black and White. All of them... All the time. RAW and JPG. They're all black and white until output for our viewing pleasure as color photos and it is the output device that "makes" them color images to our eyes.</p><p></p><p>Back to your original question... If you use the Monochrome setting in camera you'll wind up with black and white photos but they'll look flat and lifeless. Contrast will be minimal, the tonality looks "mushy" and you'll lose color channel separation so you won't have that to work with in post and that's HUGE. That's enormously huge.</p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">.....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 422693, member: 13090"] In the broadest sense I 'm going to say yes because a good Black and White photo, in the sense we're discussing this as photographers, is not simply a photo that lacks color, there's a LOT more to good black and white images than that. Somewhat oddly, many photographers do not realize ALL digital photos are, inherently, black and white: color is a function of the output device ONLY. Whether it's the LCD on the back of your camera, your computer at home or the printer that output your print, color was produced by the output device. You actual digital photo is just that: digital. 1's and 0's. Black and White. All of them... All the time. RAW and JPG. They're all black and white until output for our viewing pleasure as color photos and it is the output device that "makes" them color images to our eyes. Back to your original question... If you use the Monochrome setting in camera you'll wind up with black and white photos but they'll look flat and lifeless. Contrast will be minimal, the tonality looks "mushy" and you'll lose color channel separation so you won't have that to work with in post and that's HUGE. That's enormously huge. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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