airfrogusmc
Veteran
In my opinion and my way of thinking it's not a photograph until it's a print.
roscoetuff
Well-known
As an ex-Fuji shooter (I left to run Zeiss lenses on a Sony), I'd switched from LR to C1 for the handling of Fuji's raw files - which was/is far better in C1. Now with Sony raws, I've just gotten to know the program well enough I'm not feeling the urge to go back to LR... 'except that LR does have lots of add ins for B&W.
Did want to comment that greyscale gamma 2.2 is (as I understand it) a subset of Adobe RGB color space which should be why you could export grayscale and sRGB and not see a meaningful difference. This becomes more material in printing and matching the paper to the printer where I use Imageprint to manage that process... which is more expensive but less bothersome than the shareware version used by Jon Cone... famed B&W printer and reputedly B&W digital inksets of exceptional quality.
For my part, the cost of a Leica Monochrome was more than I wanted to lay out on the table initially for a 2nd camera kit, so I'm in the process of commissioning a Leica M4-2 to shoot B&W and re-shoot the negs with my Sony A7 series cameras for digital printing. Weird... and mo' bettah work, but you get out of this what you put into it... and somewhere it will pay off. "The things we do for love... "
Finally, want to agree that "It's not a photograph until it's a print...", adding as it was put to me a year or more ago: "Nothing will do more to improve your shooting than to print." Yep. Improves your editing, informs your post-processing, and ultimately drives you to make better images.
Did want to comment that greyscale gamma 2.2 is (as I understand it) a subset of Adobe RGB color space which should be why you could export grayscale and sRGB and not see a meaningful difference. This becomes more material in printing and matching the paper to the printer where I use Imageprint to manage that process... which is more expensive but less bothersome than the shareware version used by Jon Cone... famed B&W printer and reputedly B&W digital inksets of exceptional quality.
For my part, the cost of a Leica Monochrome was more than I wanted to lay out on the table initially for a 2nd camera kit, so I'm in the process of commissioning a Leica M4-2 to shoot B&W and re-shoot the negs with my Sony A7 series cameras for digital printing. Weird... and mo' bettah work, but you get out of this what you put into it... and somewhere it will pay off. "The things we do for love... "
Finally, want to agree that "It's not a photograph until it's a print...", adding as it was put to me a year or more ago: "Nothing will do more to improve your shooting than to print." Yep. Improves your editing, informs your post-processing, and ultimately drives you to make better images.