Digital Black and White.

Shac said:
Nikon D60
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Old digital cameras often do superb black-and-white if one is careful with the lighting and resists the impulse to add one of their old B&W filters (like the complete set of Nikon monochrome filters I've had gathering dust at home for decades) which can completely skew the tones.

When I let myself slip and slide into Fuji cameras a few years ago - which I now regret, but that's another story - I played around with the various B&W film simulations my XTs and XE and now Xpro2 came with. On the whole the results were acceptable but not superior. Interesting to note that the older Nikon DSLRs, in my case a D90 I bought new 15 years ago and which I still use for cat and home snaps, makes B&W images I regard as superior in all ways to Fuji's. Ditto my ancient Lumix GF1 which I have permanently set on B&W Dynamic, but in this case keeping in mind that the ancient technology and the small image format inevitably makes images that won't stand up to today's much better cameras. For all that they are amazingly good tho I've not yet gone to the ultimate test of making a big (= sizes A4 or A3) enlargement from my D90 or GF1 images. In this case the proof of the pudding as I see it, is in what comes out when photos are enlarged. So I'm still at the Maybe stage here.

As Lynnb, Shac and brusby show us in recent posts, good B&W images with careful post processing can make images of great beauty. So many of our on-the-shelf cameras maybe can get a new life...
 
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