I love the idea of JPEG, but I’m going back to raw for now. Shooting raw and processing black and white photos in Silver Efex Pro is King. Takes more time, but all I got is time. Not sure what’s going on with the Ricoh processor but I’ve noticed some really blotchy results when shooting higher ISOs. I like grainy photos, but it doesn’t look like grain. I can take a raw photo shot at the same ISO and it looks nice to me. I much prefer the digital grain over whatever the processor is creating. I also think processing the raw makes a more appealing black and white image. So raw for now.

I could always shoot at lower ISOs, but I love the flexibility of shooting at higher ISOs to make the GR point and shoot with no worries of depth of field. I just want to look and shoot.

Here’s a photo shot at ISO 6400 and processed in Silver Efex Pro. It has some added Tri-X simulated grain.