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That's magical Cliff, would love to see what you could do with Berlin.
That's magical Cliff, would love to see what you could do with Berlin.
Been playing around with jpeg settings on the X100 - there is still much, much more to learn about this wonderful little camera and how it responds to all the options on offer...
Thank's again, Cliff
How do I get the range of tones? Hmm, the way I shoot is probably where I start - On the Fuji X100s I've changed the way I shoot. I used to shoot full manual on all my cameras and use a sekonic light meter. However, on the Fuji Here's my settings
- Jpeg + Raw
- Aperture Priority
- Auto ISO 200-3200 shutter @125th minimum
- Dynamic Range 400
- Light meter set to spot
- And the main one - I use the EVF exclusively
My favorite B&W setting on the X100S for most situations are:
- Film simulation: B-R (B&W Red Filter)
- Sharpness: +1
- Highlight Tone: 0
- Shadow Tone: +1
- Noise Reduction: -2
This will give you a fairly contrasty B&W look when exposed correctly.
Set the camera to show B&W on the back or in the EVF. When you switch your JPG to B&W you will see a B&W image in the EVF - LCD preview. Now use the exposure compensation dial (in Aperture priority mode) to increase or decrease the exposure and get a more predominant black or white look.
You can scope the scene over the most important highlight and the EVF shows you WYSWYG. Lock down the exposure when you're happy, and that's pretty much it, straight out of the camera!
Fill Flash works great with the above method, too!
It feels like cheating, but at the end of the day, it's all about the photographs.
In Lightroom I tweak the exposure and contrast FIRST - this is important because the following sliders operate differently in Lightroom 5 - you get more out of the highlight and shadow sliders by doing so.
I hope this hasn't come across as teaching folk how to suck eggs etc
I know that Cliff, as well as few others here, have probably been shooting for as long as me, 40 odd years now and I'm still learning!
HI, Chipbuty
I tweak the Raw, which are in colour obviously - I flatten them to B&W in Lightroom, then apply a preset which I created to try and match the out of camera jpeg. It doesn't always work out, but the settings I've given above will give me good results that I like, and can be used without any real processing in Lightroom.
If I'm using just the Raw, I always have to process them exposure wise, especially so with using the DR 400 feature - as a general rule though, I never spend more than a couple of minutes on image tweaking.
Exposure is what it is, and I don't always get it right.
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- Film simulation: B-R (B&W Red Filter)
- Sharpness: +1
- Highlight Tone: 0
- Shadow Tone: +1
- Noise Reduction: -2
This will give you a fairly contrasty B&W look when exposed correctly.
Set the camera to show B&W on the back or in the EVF. When you switch your JPG to B&W you will see a B&W image in the EVF - LCD preview. Now use the exposure compensation dial (in Aperture priority mode) to increase or decrease the exposure and get a more predominant black or white look.
...
I hope this hasn't come across as teaching folk how to suck eggs etc
I know that Cliff, as well as few others here, have probably been shooting for as long as me, 40 odd years now and I'm still learning!