There’ve been a lot of questions on photo.net the last few days regarding the B&W capabilities of the D80. Although the general consensus seems to be that real men shoot RAW, that seems to me a little too much like the digital hairshirt equivalent of using stainless steel reels in changing bag. I’m not convinced of the general superiority of RAW, and I’d rather get it right in camera, which preference has nothing doing with a luddite tendency, but rather is mostly an outgrowth of laziness and impatience on my part. I’d rather not process raw files on a laptop. A demonstration of the filtering effects follows:


B&W mode, no filter applied

B&W mode, green filter applied

B&W mode, orange filter applied

B&W mode, red filter applied

B&W mode, yellow filter applied

There’s also a contrast adjustment to be played with, and over the next few days I’m going to be looking at using a custom curve in camera.