That explains it. Faststone is just showing you a jpeg rendering of the RAW. You can't output RAW in BW, and you wouldn't want to -- because it would no longer be RAW data. It would be a camera-rendered image. You're smarter than the camera. Do the BW conversion in ACR or Lightroom. Paul
On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Jeffery Johnson wrote: > Thanks Paul... Faststone is another image program that I have and I have set > up for quick views of photos and do actual editing in CS5. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul > Stenquist > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 8:41 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Pentax K-R DNG files and CS5 / GESO: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, > Nashville TN > > I believe the B&W option in the KR and all other Pentax cameras only relates > to jpegs that the camera generates from RAW. All RAW DNG files should be > output in native color on a RAW converter, such as ACR. I don't know what > Faststone is. In any case, the B&W conversion capability of ACR is far > superior to what the camera can generate. You'd be better off doing your VW > work as part of the RAW conversion. ACR will let you determine the converted > grayscale value of each color, independent of the others. It's a huge > advantage. > Paul > On Feb 27, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Jeffery Johnson wrote: > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
