On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:16:02PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > I think what Herb said will work, but set white-balance manually > BEFORE you fit the filter. Processing the image could be tricky... > I've never tried that technique but anything can work. > > However, when you are intending to do grayscale work with a digital > camera, the best option is to capture without a filter and use post- > process rendering tools to produce a monochrome rendering.
I'd offer a slight modification. If you are going for B&W, then the best thing to do is probably to shoot RAW, but with a filter that roughly balances the expected values in the R, G & B sensors. Without checking, I think that would be something like a magenta filter that takes a stop or so off the green channel, and about one third of a stop off the red channel.
