20D B & W mode

[QUASIPHOTO]

is it a really bad thing to take b & w's in the camera setting? Or should you take color always and then convert them in PS? Pros and Cons..........

[QUASIPHOTO]

oh one side note.......these shots were taken at ISO 1600 with a wide open 70-200 f2.8 L IS......Av priority at about 11:00 pm with just the ball park lighting......handheld.

[mgbeach]

Always take in color and convert. You'll have the option of the color shot that way, and you can also do a better job than the camera can at the conversion.

[martin-images]

I think its always best to shot colour then convert to bw, you have the best of both worlds then, also converting form colour say using the channel mixer give you the opertunity to use red, green and blue channels which gives greater degree over control to the finished mono picture, there are a number of different ways to convert from colour to BW in PS which will give you much better results than just using the grey scale command [which is realy bad and will put you off for life if you just use that],try different ways to convert and see what suits you best, the link below are all from colour files using the channel mixer and other manipulations take a look and see what you think :-)

Martin

Digital monochrome @

http://martin-images.smugmug.com/gallery/464835/1/24701603

[QUASIPHOTO]

thanks for the comments guys.......will do color from now on.
Martin......beautiful work on your site with the b & w......amazing!!

[JustJerk]

do both - raw and B&W JPG - You get the best of both worlds :)

[QUASIPHOTO]

you can do that?.......you can do both?......interesting
guess I had better read that manual again....closer......LOL.

[crusher420]

Yeah. This is what I do. I put the camera to do RAW + LJPEG and then I set the parameters to B+W. What this does is shoot the JPEG in B+W and a full colored version in RAW. I totally stumbled upon this by accident. What a great suprise though!

[karusel]

There are not many reasons for shooting jpeg and none for shooting B&W. RAW first then play.

[QUASIPHOTO]

Thanks guys........so here's a question. Can you do continuious shooting like for sports in RAW?.....How much does that slow down your fps? And do you actually get better results in RAW as far as picture quailty goes?

[karusel]

Well, from what I've heard RAW delivers better quality, which is a bit arguable, since it actually depends on the converter and the parameters, but the point of RAW is the absolute flexibility and the image needs not to be additionally corrected thus loosing quality. RAW is very important if you underexpose it has saved me so many times...

[bolantej]

i like the second one.