Vibbles,
Try as I might, I just keep going back to my Ricoh GRD 1, several years old now. In camera B+W mode, always Jpeg, in cam contrast up one notch, sharpness down one notch, then Lightroom 2.6, I just nearly always use one of B+W presets I have from the net, nothing more ( except sharpening). Its just a lowly 28mm prime...............
The camera is permanently on aperture priority, set to 5.0, iso 64, until I need some grainy shots and with this camera the grain is almost film like, superb shots all the way to 1600
thanks for the comments