I'm currently thinking about purchasing a digital SLR camera.
Apart from the normal setting that come with a normal SLR camera I'm particularly interested in having an additional setting which will allow me to take black and white pictures as well as coloured pictures. Can you buy cameras that are able to take good quality pictures in both colour and black and white settings?
I鈥檓 undecided whether it is best to just buy a camera with a good number of pixels and opt against the black and white setting and just manipulate my pictures on my PC. I'm also unsure which makes have the black and whites settings? I would appreciate any suggestions on which cameras or makes I should be looking at particularly. Most dSLR models have a black & white setting. And even if you like a particular camera that doesn't have that feature, just buy it. You can convert pictures to b&w in any image editor with about 3 mouse clicks.
Besides, people that are seriously into digital black and white photography shoot in color and do all their own editing anyway. You can often achieve better results by tweaking the color version first. If you Google for "b&w workflow" and similar terms, you'll see that tons of people have their own various way of doing that. They COULD let their camera do the work, but they achieve better results in Photoshop. I thinl most have b\w settings The New Nikon D40/x has in camera picture editing. You can apply Sepia, Grayscale and Cyanotype right on the spot. Of course, this won't give as good as results as using something like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop together. But if you're on a tight budget, this is the route to go. most of the dslrs comes with this feature ..... for me i use my pc to produce the b/w pictures ... and i have great results.... There were digital cameras made many years ago that were specifically made for black & white only. I believe Kodak made one. But they were rare and expensive.
The "grey scale" or "black & white" modes of colour D-SLRs are not truly black & white imaging like you might expect. Because of the way a digital camera works, these modes get "grey" by removing amounts of red, green and blue that were filtered onto the digital sensor when the picture was made. In other words, they make black & white pictures by taking light away. You won't get nearly the same depth that black & white film will.
You can also manipulate a colour photo in Photoshop or other software to create a black & white image. This will likely give you better results than what you get from a "black and white" mode from your camera because you'll be able to adjust things exactly to your liking. Clicking the "convert to greyscale" option is the simpliest, but least attractive way. There are other adjustments beyond this as well. All methods involve removing light from the picture to get it to what you want. Photography is about art, not about being scientifically perfect.
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