GF1 not showing B&W in Lightroom?

andyw · #1 February 5th, 2010, 01:24 PM

I took a couple shots on Aperture priority but before hand i pressed the Fn button on the back of the camera which bought up the film mode which I set to Dynamic B&W. Took 2 shots and imported them into Lightroom 2.5. When they came up they were in full normal colour! Why were they not in B&W ? Have I not done something? What's the point in having this feature if it does not show in Lightroom???? :D

Any help appreciated.

ooh by the way, i had a manual focus lens on, not my usual 20mm or 14-45mm AF lens. Dunno if this makes a difference?

UPDATE:

Ok i have just popped the 14-45mm on and it saves the image in dynamic B&W so that solves that mystery! :D

I was going to delete this thread but it may help a few?

Brian Mosley · #2 February 5th, 2010, 01:27 PM

Andy, were you shooting raw?

The in-camera settings are unlikely to be recognised by a 3rd party raw converter. I don't know whether Panasonic gave Silkypix any better support?

Cheers

Brian

andyw · #3 February 5th, 2010, 04:49 PM

Yes i shoot in RAW. It happened because i was using a manual focus lens. It was fine with the Auto focus lens. I don't know why this should make any difference but hey ho!

Brian Mosley · #4 February 5th, 2010, 05:15 PM

Are you expecting Lightroom to open your raw file, and display it in B&W if you had the camera in B&W mode for the capture?

I don't know whether Lightroom will read the configuration settings in the raw file... and apply them by default to your raw file as it is opened. The raw file contains all of the colour data collected from the sensor... you'd need to apply a modifier to the raw file to make it B&W.

Could it be, on previous attempts that you opened the B&W jpeg?

Cheers

Brian

andyw · #5 February 5th, 2010, 06:51 PM

I ALWAYS shoot in raw...no exceptions!

The Dynamic B&W in camera setting works and opens just fine in lightroom if i use an AF lens. If i use an MF lens then the raw file opens in colour in lightroom.

Dunno why having a MF lens on makes any difference but it must!

Brian Mosley · #6 February 6th, 2010, 01:45 AM

That's interesting... is there anywhere you can get customer support / request a fix from Adobe?

All of my raw converter suppliers will take a direct e-mail from me, and give me a personal reply... guess that's one of the reasons I steer clear of Adobe.

Cheers

Brian

rst · #7 February 6th, 2010, 03:48 AM

OK, maybe the G1 is a different story. But when I use Raw, then all my images, no matter which film mode I used open in color in Lightroom. When using a b&w mode in camera, then for a very short time Lightroom shows that b&w image. That is because they show the jpg file embedded in the Raw file until Lightroom has generated the standard previews (which are then in color). And this behavior is the same, no matter which lens I use (be it AF, or MF, adapted or zoom or prime). Since I think that handling of Raw files from G1 and GF1 should be pretty similar, I wonder why Adobe will handle them different. But hey, it is software, I work in IT myself, so I better not wonder why this is.

Cheers
rst

Chow Monkey · #8 February 6th, 2010, 09:06 AM

In Lightroom goto edit --> Preferences
Goto import
Enable "Treat JPG files next to RAW files as seperate photos

This should solve the issue.. The Art Filters or the Themes in the Pana are not applied on the RAW file but saved as a seperate jpg as I was told..

Brian Mosley · #9 February 6th, 2010, 09:12 AM

Ah, that makes sense Chow... thanks.

Cheers

Brian

franzenjb · #10 July 29th, 2010, 09:22 PM

Thanks