Top quality black and white digital photography

It should be easy to get good black and white digital photography from a modern digital camera. 

After all, most come with a black and white mode to enable instant black and white photography. 

But my advice – steer clear of any of those special camera modes!

I'll show you why . . . roll your mouse over the photographs below (one was converted by the greyscale method, the other by using the "channel mixer"). 

If you would like your black and white digital photography to look more like the second photo, rather than the lifeless greyscale of the first photo, then read on.

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