Black & White & Sepia

canon400d

I have a Canon 400D. I have looked and better look to see if my camera will take black & white & Serpia photos but cannot find the setting. That is if there is a setting. Can anyone please help me and give me instructions if it does take black & white & serpia photos.
Kind Regards
Bob
Dumfries & Galloway

sirsloop

I'd take the photo RAW in color... then add the effect in post processing. I think there is a way to take just BW in the camera, but its super simple to do in DPP - even batch changes.

ziggy53

canon400d wrote:

I have a Canon 400D. I have looked and better look to see if my camera will take black & white & Serpia photos but cannot find the setting. That is if there is a setting. Can anyone please help me and give me instructions if it does take black & white & serpia photos.
Kind Regards
Bob
Dumfries & Galloway

Bob,

Here is the link to the User Manual for your camera. (Under the "Product / Software Manuals") You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it, but you can use it to search much easier than the printed manual.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=314&modelid=14256

DavidTO

To find it, you gotta know how to spell it.

"Sepia".


You're welcome!

canon400d

ziggy53 wrote:

Bob,

Here is the link to the User Manual for your camera. (Under the "Product / Software Manuals") You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it, but you can use it to search much easier than the printed manual.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=314&modelid=14256

Thanks Ziggy for your help again. I really do appreciate it.
Bob

claudermilk

Like sirsloop said: take the shot in color and convert to B&W/Sepia in post processing. To really do it right you are not just stripping all color information & going grayscale (what the in-camera setting does)--that leaves a poor, cold rendition. There are dozens of ways to do it in Photoshop (run a Google search for days of reading), and some RAW converters will do it as well; my favorite is the plugin available for Bibble, I get excellent results from that.

canon400d

claudermilk wrote:

Like sirsloop said: take the shot in color and convert to B&W/Sepia in post processing. To really do it right you are not just stripping all color information & going grayscale (what the in-camera setting does)--that leaves a poor, cold rendition. There are dozens of ways to do it in Photoshop (run a Google search for days of reading), and some RAW converters will do it as well; my favorite is the plugin available for Bibble, I get excellent results from that.

Thanks a lot Chris I will have a look at Bibble.
Kind Regards
Bob

claudermilk

canon400d wrote:

Thanks a lot Chris I will have a look at Bibble.
Kind Regards
Bob

Check the showoff section on their support forum. Some of those guys are really making the most of the capabilities.

jdryan3

DavidTO wrote:

To find it, you gotta know how to spell it.

"Sepia".

No, no, no. I'm sure he meant sherpa



http://www.donsbossons.com/pages/9images/sherpa.jpg