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Black and White in camera or photoshop?

hangbelly

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A question for the masses. When you shoot black and white, do you shoot color and convert in photoshop,or do you use the black and white filter in camera? I personally shoot black and white in my dslr as I shoot both jpeg and raw at the same time so still have a lot of info to work with. But with my point and shoots I convert in photoshop (Gimp). I just wonder how others handle it.
 
Always shoot RAW only and convert. In the past when I was using Fuji X cameras I would do RAW and B&W JPEG. Occasionally the B&W would work out but I like to convert based upon what the image tells me so RAW works best.
 
In my case I do both. I shoot JPEG BWs in camera, as well as convert to BW using the software of my 10+ yr old MacBook. I have never converted a RAW image nor bought any real software. (I’m sure I should though.)

How I go about deciding which method I should shoot in is just by feeling. Nothing scientific or systematic. Not even rational, either. Perhaps, it’s all whim with me. Don’t really know.
 
I try to experiment with B&W more in the future. I just bought a second hand Fuji X-Pro2 and I like the B&W outcome of it ooc.

What I like is that I have a B&W viewfinder (if I use the ELV of the XPro2). It makes you really thinking differently.

I am not a pixel peeper, so I do not know whether I would see a difference in shooting directly B&W and doing it afterwards in photo editing.

But there is an interesting video from Petapixel with Chris & Jordan (their first video there) about the Leica M11 monochrome. They talk there also about the downsides you will have, if you have a monochrome camera. Maybe also interesting for you.

 
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