black and white settings for the 10d

[blacksheep]

How do I set my 10D for black and white. I want to shoot black and white infrared.

[evilenglishman]

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[PacAce]

I thought there was a CF card that stores all images in B&W!? :D (Sorry, just kiddin'...couldn't resist! :)

If you want B&W images, you'll have to convert them with Photoshop or some other photo editor.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Its an understandable question though.... :)

So far this is the first Digital I've owned that doesn't have a B&W setting. My Olympus had sepia and a bunch of other ones I never used.

However,. I think the lack of a B&W setting on this Camera makes sense. Photoshop etc. will most likely do a better job of it anyway.,.. and with it being done in software at least you will allways have the choice to go black and white. If you shoot B&W in Camera,. then your stuck with it! :D

[photography By Evangelos]

If you had the fuji S2 you can do on bored B&W. You can also do Digital Infrared if you have a Nikon. You can not do it with any canon. Why you may ask canon cameras have an IR internally and Nikons do not. So we are out of luck in the Infrared department. Which sucks.

[Dave I]

If you want to shoot infra-red, just get an IR filter. I've seen some good 10D infra-red shots.

I understand there's a bit of a learning curve, though. The camera acts very different with an IR filter in place.

[Jeppe]

photography By Evangelos wrote:
If you had the fuji S2 you can do on bored B&W. You can also do Digital Infrared if you have a Nikon. You can not do it with any canon. Why you may ask canon cameras have an IR internally and Nikons do not. So we are out of luck in the Infrared department. Which sucks.


I dont see the problem here, If your into IR-photography, you just get a Nikon instead of a Canon.

Like, you dont use a fork if you want to eat soup. ;)

Its all about what tools to use..

[photography By Evangelos]

Thanks Jeppe. I am thinking I will have to get a S2 I really like the camera. I have so much invested in the canon system it would be nice if canon did some of the things that the S2 can. So I will have to get a S2 in the next few months or just wait for the S3 witch will be a full frame CCD chip and will have around 9 to 10 Pix super CCD. The super CCD chip is a really nice chip and on the S2 it is like a 9 pix chip. So the S3 should be around 12 to 13 Pix interpolated. I will be looking in to Nikon Glass and Flash units and an off camera shoe cord and wait on the camera until the official announcement of the S3 or just wait for the S2's price to fall in the $1,200 range.

[photography By Evangelos]

Dave I wrote:
If you want to shoot infra-red, just get an IR filter. I've seen some good 10D infra-red shots.

I understand there's a bit of a learning curve, though. The camera acts very different with an IR filter in place.


Were do you get the filter for a canon all the filters I have seen say not for canon cameras.

[Sunil]

photography By Evangelos wrote:
If you had the fuji S2 you can do on bored B&W. You can also do Digital Infrared if you have a Nikon. You can not do it with any canon. Why you may ask canon cameras have an IR internally and Nikons do not. So we are out of luck in the Infrared department. Which sucks.

Are you sure of that? This bloke seems to manage alright with his *Canon* cameras:

http://home.surfcenter.de/chris/foto/index-infrared.htm

And since my 10D passes the "remote test" halfway down this page:

http://www.cliffshade.com/dpfwiw/ir.htm

I suspect it'd work fine too.

[Guillermo Freige]

You can do IR with a 10D, but take your tripod :)
I've done some IR pictures with a Canon S50, and the 10D is even more sensible than the S50. Of course, the D30 is still the most IR sensitive Canon DSLR, and (I think) the D60 the least sensitive, with the 10D somewhere in between.
You can see my IR pictures in my gallery
I've made my own filter stacking 3 layers of overexposed negative film over the lens :)
(Something impossible to do with the EF lenses, except you can find some large format negatives)