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digital black and white

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I ran out of points on my Bic Camera card last week, and told myself that I'd stop shooting film for a while when that happened. So it's time to go back to digital for a while.

One thing I detest about shooting digital is all the mucking about with Lightroom and RAW files. It's no fun.

So I've decided to slap a yellow filter on my trusty ol' Pentax DSLR and shoot in 4MP black and white. So far, I've been happy with the results, though it's clear that digital has neither the reach (in 'dynamic range' of black and white tones) nor the texture of my Ilford FP4/HP5 films. But it's not far from the XP2 stuff I used to shoot, which was colour film without the colour emulsions (a quick-and-dirty black and white that's both high-contrast and limited in dynamic range).

It'll do for now. You can see some of the recent stuff in the tokyo '09 collection.