Friday, 21 November 2008

Black and white or colour or both?



Digital is a wonderful thing as even the cheapest compacts offer dedicated black and white shooting modes as well as a full range of "film" speeds although most are unusable above 200 iso! These examples are from the Canon G9 and follow on from reading several Ricoh GR Digital blogs where the photographers use their cameras exclusively as black and white cameras and I have shot various tests and love the tonal quality of the b/w mode straight out of the camera.

Of course great to have the option of both - no changing film, midway through a roll and no need to have multiple rolls of film of different speeds and the 2Gb card holds over 370 images - that's over ten rolls of 36 exposure film!

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