Re: black and white

Don Stauffer in Minnesota wrote:
On Aug 18, 9:05 am, "lurk" <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
any suggestions how to get quality black and white pictures with a sony
digital camera ....thanks

You have two options for monochrome with a digital camera. If the
camera has a monochrome mode, you can use that. Or, you can convert
from color to monochrome in a photo editing program such as Photoshop
or Paint Shop Pro. Even though my camera has a monochrome mode, I
prefer to do the conversion in my computer, for several reasons.

First, I may sometime want a color image of the shot. If taken and
stored as monochrome I am out of luck. Secondly, I find more options
doing it in the computer. There are several ways to do the
conversion, and one can do prefiltering before the conversion. The
flexibility is nice. Also, I can get a hand-tinted effect by taking a
monochrome conversion and combining it with the original color file.
One can even do the conversion when printing, with many printers, by
simply telling the printer to print monochrome. I find this the least
satisfactory method, however.

I'll second all that.
.

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