Digital Black and White.

[brusby]

Cathedral Spires and Rocks Backlit at Dusk
Cathedral Spires and Rocks Backlit at Dusk L1030156 by Brusby, on Flickr

 

[Taipei-metro]

Hot Dog House,

Pasadena, Los Angeles County, USA


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Panasonic Lumix G6,
Panasonic 14mm F2.5 Lens made in Japan

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Yokohama City Port Opening Memorial Hall

Fujifilm X-T5 camera
Voigtländer Color-Skopar 18mm f2.8 (X-mount) lens
Yokohama City, Japan
May 2025​

 

[Out to Lunch]

Saigon, Thu Duc City. Leica SL2S - Sigma 2/35 DG DN Contemporary.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sony A7III camera
Voigtälnder 35mm F3.5 Color-Skopar Aspherical (black paint) VM lens
Yokohama, Japan
May 2025​

 

[Taipei-metro]

digital black and white w a Summilux lens,

Arcadia, Los Angeles County, USA May 2025


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Panasonic mFT Lumix LX100,
Leica Vario Summilux 10.9-34mm/ 21.8-68 Fov

 

[Tuna]

 

[Tuna]

 

[Tuna]

 

[Taipei-metro]

Yilan County, Taiwan


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Canon APSC T4i,
Canon 18-55 Lens made in Japan

 

[lynnb]

Dee Why rock pool, Sydney, May 2025. #3260
iPhone 15 Pro back triple camera 9mm ISO25 1/1,800 f/2.8
bw conversion in LR6 with some added grain to soften the clinical digital rendering.
Original colour version is here. I like both versions.

 

[Shac]

Nikon D60

 

[brusby]

90mm Elmar f4 three element
L1000054 by Brusby, on Flickr

 

[DownUnder]

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...

 

[antiquark]

Nikon z50ii, 35mm/1.4

 

[Tuna]

 

[Taipei-metro]

Last picture for the bowling alley...

San Gabriel, Los Angeles County


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Panasonic Lumix G6,
Zuiko 14-42

 

[Leon C]

Old test shot from the Olympus E-420.



The PK > M4/3 adapter landed the other day so a quick test: Ricoh 28-100/4 Rikenon on the Lumix GF3

 

[mrtoml]

Panasonic G100D. 12-32mm pancake.

 

[petronius]

Nikon Coolpix A1000, Silver Efex