Digital BW, The Print

> From: Stephen Kobrin [mailto:kobrins@...]
>
> My concern was whether the white balance adjustment in the camera
> mattered if one was shooting in raw mode and planned to convert to
> B&W.  From the thread to date I gather that there is agreement that
> the camera white balance settings are irrelevant, but that there is
> some disagreement about the importance of getting the white balance
> right when you do the raw conversion in PS.

To clarify: WB variations will affect the B&W image, but not by a huge
amount, and then only if you do a "blind" B&W conversion. If you use the
Channel Mixer to make drastic adjustments to the mix (such as leaving out
one channel entirely, or even applying a negative gain to one channel), and
you do so by eye, tweaking the sliders until you like the result, then you
will have completely overridden and swamped out the smaller gain variations
that the WB controls make to the three channels.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...