Infrared

[stevemoorevale]

Hi. I've just imported some photos i took today on my infrared converted camera. In the field i set my camera to shoot black and white because i generally prefer black and white infrared although i can revert to colour later if preferred. Photomechanic thumbnails all show up correctly as black and white and so does the full size preview when i open the image but after a few seconds it then resets itself back to the colour version., if it is displaying the embedded jpeg which has a black and white picture style (shooting canon) shouldn't this stay black and white when i open it in the preview window?

[Kirk Baker]

Steve,

Do you have RAW rendering (via the Adobe DNGConverter) turned on?  If so, I expect that when it renders the image, the preview it produces is in color.  You can turn the RAW rendering off and the embedded preview will be used instead.

-Kirk

[stevemoorevale]

Thanks for the reply Kirk. Ironically i switched RAW Rendering on only a few days ago as i was fed up with having adobes DNGs not render properly inside of PM (i don't have many DNGs but the ones i do have never rendered properly). I don't shoot much infrared so maybe if i know i'll be culling such shots i can temporarily turn it off.

Thanks again.

[Kirk Baker]

Steve,

Thanks for the reply Kirk. Ironically i switched RAW Rendering on only a few days ago as i was fed up with having adobes DNGs not render properly inside of PM (i don't have many DNGs but the ones i do have never rendered properly). I don't shoot much infrared so maybe if i know i'll be culling such shots i can temporarily turn it off.

You can use the Adobe DNGConverter to update the previews in the few DNGs that have the wrong preview.  Once the preview is updated, PM will continue to use the updated preview.

-Kirk

[stevemoorevale]

Would i do that via the Tool menu and Convert RAW to DNG?

[Kirk Baker]

Steve,

Would i do that via the Tool menu and Convert RAW to DNG?

You could, yes.  But if you have a bunch in a folder, you're better off using the Adobe DNG Converter on a folder at a time.

-Kirk