On 5 Mar 2014, at 03:04, "Darren Addy" <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Worse still IMHO is that you must accept the b&w rendering that the >> camera applies. That's like using a single film only for all your >> shooting and seems awfully limiting. With a colour camera you can use >> any of dozens of possible conversion techniques from RAW to b&w and so >> get a lot more artistic control over the process. > > Respectfully, Bruce, that's not true. If you read the B&H reviews, > many people still enjoy using Silver Efex Pro to do their own > rendering from the RAW files (which still contain way more information > than a mere JPEG does). You've got all kind of creativity left there. > > Whether it is worth $8K for the camera and several $K more for the > decent lenses to put on it is a different matter. I think anyone who > spends that is either MAD or perhaps dying and wants to do SOMETHING > with the money they have in the bank. Hopefully that is not the case > with BobW! >
Well, we're all dying. Mad? I'll leave that diagnosis to my team of shrinks and straitjacket tailors. I already have a M8, a M3 and half a dozen Leica lenses, so nothing extra to buy. I'm torn between the Monochrom and the M typ 240. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
