On 2 Dec 2004 at 13:17, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: > What I'm thinking of is really a question about the "raw" format. Is it > truely > "raw", the simple captured sensor data. If it is, are there techniques in > place > to allow later treatment of the data as though it were the original light, > making it monochrome, filtering the colors, and anything else that I'd like to > do on the front end.
> Is this even on the right track? I think so, though I wouldn't suggest that digital capture tools available to us plebs currently have the latitude of widely available B&W films but it will happen. > What I'm looking for is the ability to treat digital like film. > At least in terms of the sequence in handling the data. > And promise to never pour fixer onto a lens. Firstly in RAW conversion you'd need to emulate the particular film by setting up a parameters on the RAW conversion utility that mimicked the sensitivity and gamma of the film so that any colour would be represented at a luminance level similar to that rendered on film. Then once in PS you could apply the equivalent colour filter then desaturate the image. I haven't tried this myself but I've been utilizing some techniques that seem to work quite well to produce pleasing B&W images, now I just have to find a decent method to print them. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
