Hi All,


after reading "The Negative", and looking at some of my b/w landscape photos, I was wondering whether the combination of a colour filter (in particular yellow or orange) with a DSLR is something that is "accepted practice", or whether it just doesn't work properly, given that a DSLR's pixels are each "coloured"...


…however I am really interested in having greater control over the colour-to-b/w conversion that is, in some way, required to obtain a b/w image. The first step of control is to choose the exact mix of rgb data from which the b/w image is made, but it's clear that a filter on the lens that works on the continuous spectrum, rather than the three quantised colour channels, can never be fully simulated in software.


Any experiences? Is it worth a filter when it doesn't (mostly) coincide with the colour of one of the colour triplets?


Thanks & Regards, Colin