how to take a B&W pic with a GF2

justin44 · 27 Apr 2011

i must be missing somthing, with my canon G10 i can set the camera to B&W but with the Panasonic GF2 the best i can get is Monochrome. Is that the best i'm going to get with out useing photoshop?

Smeghead · 27 Apr 2011

Shoot in colour and convert to B&W in post processing. You can turn a colour image into black and white, but you can't add colour into a black and white image.

Davec223 · 27 Apr 2011

justin44 said:
i must be missing somthing, with my canon G10 i can set the camera to B&W but with the Panasonic GF2 the best i can get is Monochrome. Is that the best i'm going to get with out useing photoshop?

B&W and monochrome are the samething, as Smeghead said, shoot Raw and coNvert, you will get far better tones than with a B&W that the camera has processed

gongua · 29 Apr 2011

For the best results, shoot in raw and convert to BW in Camera Raw.

fixedimage · 29 Apr 2011

Not sure if the GF2 will do it - but I'd be surprised if not - but I'd recommend shooting RAW with the colour settings in the camera turned to monochrome so that you can 'see' in b&w as you go.
I set my NEX up like this and it means my viewfinder (the screen) is constantly in b&w and i get a much better idea of whether something will 'work' or not.

kiko · 29 Apr 2011

I'll check properly when i'm in work again on sunday, but going by the menu pictures.

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click menu,
rec (picture of camera)
page 4 (keep scrolling down)
picture adjust
B/W
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you should also be able to change your Fn button to the 'picture adjust' so if you like switching between colour and B/W quickly that'll help.

hope that's right, or i'll look like an idiot

DizMatt · 29 Apr 2011

for the lazy and also complete...can it shoot RAW + Jpeg?
if so you get the original file but also the look the monochrome shot in the LCD you you have an idea of what you're creating

fixedimage · 30 Apr 2011

DizMatt said:
for the lazy and also complete...can it shoot RAW + Jpeg?
if so you get the original file but also the look the monochrome shot in the LCD you you have an idea of what you're creating

If you shoot raw with the colour setting turned to b&w you should get this too. Every camera I've had that had a b&w mode and RAW did this.

AJQS · 2 May 2011

Panasonic set to B&W will still give you colour rawfiles, but the LCD will show B&W even in playback.