Cannot shoot BW?????

[shon]

How do you shoot BW pictures on the D50, I tried in the manual but cannot find it.

 

Thanks

[Andrew in Austin]

http://www.gormanphotography.com/bw_conversion.pdf

[shon]

^^ thanks. I know how to do in PS but want to knowif I can do it with the camera?

[bwcombs]

You can't do it in camera. Post-processing only.

[david_h._hartman]

You dont want to do it in camera as the in camera

implementation usually result in an inferior conversion. Anyway

why limit yourself to B&W. With a color RGB image you can,

after the fact, implement any B&W contrast control filter you

like. There must be 50 ways to leave your color in Photoshop, all

of them better than desaturate or in camera.<br>

<br>

If you want a quick conversion, automate the process in Photoshop

or a similar program. You can convert and save the resulting

files in a new folder with a modified name.<br>

<br>

Best,<br>

<br>

Dave Hartman.

[Jerry_]

KEH (in Atlanta) had Nikon Capture 4.3 for ninety bucks...the software will let you do B&W, Sepia, and play with NEF files. Not as 'super' as Photoshop, but a whole lot cheaper to buy a legal copy.

 

 

 

But as noted above, the D50 is not going to let you shoot B&W in the camera.

[shon]

Thanks for the help fellas. I just picked up R2 and YA2 filter for taking BW shots, will post pictures tommorow.

 

Thanks again for the help. BTW I already have photoshop.

[eye-of-searle]

?????

[leighton]

kind of a waste of money to buy B&W filters, when you have photoshop...

in my opinion, polerizer and ND are the only ones you need with digital.

[walterh]

Alam the images are recorded in the camera by the chip using red green and blue sensors! There are no dedicated sensors for BW. All BW images are computed by combining the RGB values. Any consumer camera giving you BW images does this combination in camera. Since your computer presumably has more computing power than your D50 it is of no concern that the D50 can not do it. Just do this in PS. In PS you have the possibility to mix the color channels to obtain just the BW effect you prefer. You need no color filter to do this. Just balance the color channels to your liking. Taking only the red channel is like using a red filter when taking the image.

 

Good BW shooting.

 

Walter

[photo5]

Which leads me to really wonder why the D50 doesn't offer a black and white mode when the D200 does. Anyone else wonder about this?

 

I wouldn't shoot in black and white either. It's too easy to convert to black and white in photoshop using the channel mixer to customize the result.

 

Dave

[shon]

Thanks for help fellas. I bought the filters because I wanted to do something like this shot which is IR

 

http://www.superhonda.com/photopost/data/515/pict_013_bw.jpg

 

I tried a few shots and it does make a difference with the filters.