CC: black and white in camera
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Re black and white in camera: In the old days you'd buy black and white film. I once took a driving trip through Arizona to take photos, and I bought a new camera and loaded my old one with black and white film so that I could take one or two photos per stop in black and white.
Unfortunately I forgot that the old camera didn't register the first two or three photos on each roll and you had to take some "fake" shots simply to advance the roll, and my first stop was the one of which I most wanted black-and-white photos: the Superstition Mountains. (I grew up in Arizona and loved their rugged beauty.)
But that's a different story.
These days one can easily convert to black-and-white in post-processing, and I do not shoot photos in black and white. In fact, I have two new cameras and don't totally know the features of either one yet, so I "cheated" by choosing the selective color and turning it to purple because there was no purple in the frame.
I'd rather do the conversion in post-processing because if I decide I want the shot in black and white, I can always change it to black and white later. But if I decide I want a black-and-white shot in color instead, too bad.
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