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Black and White with a Digital Camera I am currently planning on upgrading my camera from a Canon APS SLR to the Canon Digital Rebel SLR (fits in my price range around $1000). I love taking black and white pictures as a hobby, and I wanted to know what the quality of black and white photography with digital would be once they are processed. I have had numerous problems with the camera that I have now because APS makes black and white film but is developed on color paper.
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Are you having somebody else do the prints or are you doing them yourself? I've done black and white digital, and they looked fine with adjustments with contrast. Somebody else has tried it and said they kept getting a blue tint. So if you do it yourself, you may have to make some adjustments. If you get a tint, you may be able to fix it by going to gray scale, then going back to rgb mode, then take out whatever color is coming through, and then print gray scale. It may take some experimenting to get it exactly how you want it.
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Dave Cross |
Have a look at this Photoshop bolt-on, it works well for me. Once you have your mono image, you will want to print it ... nightmare ... modern photo labs and inkjet printers are simply not designed to produce real "black." They always have some colour cast (as you've noticed getting your B/W prints done). When you find a way of getting a really good black on a digital print, let us know :-) I cheat by adding a deliberate colour cast (like sepia) giving the "antique" look, It's not perfect, but at least it looks like you intended. Have a look at my shot of Bruges (in Belgium), it actually looks better printed on my cheap-and-cheerful inkjet, but you get the idea. Let us all know how you get on. Cheers.
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Dave Cross |
There are a number of issues involved when you want to produce black and white prints from digital which is essentially a colour medium. I assume that you want to replicate the effect of black and white film rather than just having a monochrome image. B&W film responds to different colours of light in different ways and simply greyscaling or de-saturating your colour image just won't look right. This differing colour response of mono film is why using strongly coloured filters has such a profound effect on the appearance of mono photographs. Have a look at this Photoshop bolt-on, it works well for me. Once you have you mono image you will want to print it... nightmare... modern photo labs and inkjet printers are simply not designed to produce real 'black' it's always got some colour cast (as you've noticed getting your B&W prints done). When you find a way of getting a really good black on a digital print, let us know :-) I cheat by adding a deliberate colour cast (like sepia) giving the 'antique' look, it's not perfect, but at least it looks like you intended. Have a look at my shot of Bruges (in Belgium), it actually looks better printed on my cheap-and-cheerful inkjet, but you get the idea. Let us all know how you get on. Cheers
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