Can I have a mixture of Black & White and Colour Photos?
The short answer is yes. In the days of the film camera I had to decide whether to load black & white or colour film, or indeed negative or transparency, fast or slow, professional or general…. Digital has done away with all those decisions. Modern digital camera sensors capture light spectrum information by recording differing wavelengths as well as intensity. This raw digital data is then “processed” to create a colour image. (All colour exists in a predictable location on the visible spectrum, so by accurately gauging a single point, known as the white balance, all other colour information can be adjusted relative to this. Think of the light spectrum a slide rule!) Most cameras do this processing immediately & then display the jpeg image on the camera screen for you to preview. Professionals generally capture the RAW (this is the general file format name) data & transfer it on to a computer & process it there. Even top-of-the-line professional cameras cannot match desktop computer
