loosing camera settings

[geesbert]

i am shooting only raw, but for personal work i like to dial in black and white mode, which my 5d does a pretty decent job. when I import those raws into LR, they are in colour. is there a way to import the BW setting set in-camera?

stefan

[genemcc]

If you shoot raw files in black and white mode, all that will do is show you a B&W image on your camera's LCD.  Raw files capture what the sensor data is when you press the release.  When you bring it into LR you get the raw file rendered in color.

From there you could process them into B&W.  If you want to have B&W open in LR then you need to shoot JPEG since those settings will get "baked into" the file before they get to LR.  But then you loose the flexibility of raw AND color.

The easiest way to preserve all the data of RAW but have them open in B&W is to set up a develop preset that does a decent general B&W conversion.  Then choose that preset on the import dialog.  It will get applied to every image coming in...VOILA!  RAW files with B&W previews.

I hope that helps!

[macgyver]

If you use Digital Photo Professional (the software from canon) you can shoot in RAW in black and white and it will carry over to the computer.  You don't loose color or anything else, it just remembers the black and white like it remembers the white balance. And, I actually reall like the look of their b/w files too.