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With the "almost random" I just want to emphasize that when you shoot B&W within the camera, you get always the same result (a desaturated image with some basic filtering...) On the other hand, when you <B>convert to b&w</B> you have full authority over the result, so you can apply limitless filtering over the initial color, so that you can get any contrast / tone result you want! I too shoot b&w with my cameras (so that I will be able to check the image directly on b&w on the screen), but then always convert the raw to b&w on the PC!<BR>
Sure, digikam is somehow basic to its b&w conversion, but there are plenty of other methods....<BR>
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By the way, in my case (I use Olympus E-3 and Panasonic LX-3) digikam shows the raws as I shoot them (b&w)<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000">Vasilis Yiannakos</FONT><BR>
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On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 11:08 -0700, Brice Boyer wrote:<BR>
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PS @ vasilis : some cameras do not produce almost random B+W images... ;)
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