#photography nerditry:
Is it worth using a monochrome sensor for making digital B&W photos?
TL;DR: Sometimes, but the benefits are relatively limited and may not outweigh the cost and hassle.
I make mostly B&W photos, at least in my fine art photography practice. I’m fortunate to have both the color and achromatic (B&W) versions of the sensor I use in my main camera system, but I usually (about 80% of the time) use the color sensor and convert to B&W in post processing.
The tradeoffs:
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@mattblaze@federate.social I don’t know if you do people/portraits but IR is interesting there too because skin is quite translucent around the 800-900nm band. Strong lighting can glow through skin, which looks quite alien and beautiful in some contexts.
@phenidone@mstdn.social Yeah, it’s not the sort of work I do, but I’ve seen some really stunning IR portrait photos.