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Monochrome images and RAW
Fotodog wrote:
If you are contemplating a camera for monochrome shooting only, is there any advantage in having RAW capability? Yes. It gives you more options in post processing, depending on your RAW conversion software. You'll be able to lift shadows and recover blown highlights, at least to some extent, with fewer artefacts than when working with jpegs. You may also be able to do channel mixer monochrome conversion with greater bit depth, giving smoother tonality. If you want to get really carried away, you could probably write yourself a dedicated monochrome RAW converter, based on Dave Coffin's DCraw. http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ |
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Monochrome images and RAW
Alex Monro wrote:
If you want to get really carried away, you could probably write yourself a dedicated monochrome RAW converter, based on Dave Coffin's DCraw. I've written a few scripts that use it. Ufraw is a good frontend to it. -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk |
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