gilp wrote:what I do find sad about Digital B&W is that it's because an easy exit for shots which are less than perfect as I often read: "my iso was high so the image is noisy...I'll convert it to B&W" . To me that signifies that there was never an actual intent in creating a B&W, and that is not right.
Wow, nothing like making limitations for others.
B&W is about form and composition, for the most part, with tonal range
important as well. If a photograph works that way, then it's "right," the
notion of purity of intention notwithstanding.
It's like telling a painter, before he exhibits, no, you can't go back and
change those colors or those strokes -- it wasn't your original intention, etc.
Many see a scene FOR its form, or don't notice the colors, but that's how
the camera sees.
Taking in color, in digital cameras, tends to be wiser because you gather
more channel information, with more to work with when you later mix the
tones of your final b&w.