Digital BW, The Print

I appreciate the suggestions on converting color to BW.  The benefits of 
post-shooting conversion from color are obvious.  But the other side of the 
question is if there are ever advantages in quality to using BW mode 
instead.  I'm wondering what sort of advantages those would be, if they 
even exist (I've only had the camera a week) .  Finer detail is a guess -- 
in limited tests I haven't seen this in BW mode but wondered what sort of 
subject would provide the best test.  Are there any other tests for quality 
that in theory might show better results in BW mode with a particular camera.

Bob G

At 01:23 PM 2/6/2002, you wrote:
>--- ALONG THESE SAME LINES you can go to the WINDOW-SHOW channels.
>you will get the rgb image and the red, green and blue channels. this
>gives you an idea of what the image would look like with these three
>filters (don't ask me what specific filter numbers they are ). the
>red and the green are usually the most interesting. from there you
>can go to channel mixer and adjust the monochrome image. larry pirrone
>
>  DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Carolyn  Frayn <carolyn@u...>
>wrote:
> > It's called "channel mixer" ... not color mixer
> >
> > snip
> > > the main reasons is that many people use photoshop and it has a
>tool
> > > called "color mixer" which gives great flexibility in converting
>to
> > > bw.  You get to choose the percentage of each RGB channel you
>want in
> > > your BW image.  This means that it is easier emulate the
>different BW
> >
> > > films (or just have more room for creativity).  Once I found it I
> > > havent gone back to the old "convert to momochrome" tool in
>photoshop.
> >
> > and "convert to profile" or grayscale mode conversion...
> >
> > best,
> > Carolyn
>
>
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