A few days ago, I played with the B&W settings that the X-T3 offers.
The left half is the jpg, straight out of the camera.
The right part is my black&whitification from the RAW.
It was an interesting experiment, indeed. But I do prefer to do it myself…
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
Me too. In fact, I’d rather have the range of control afforded by grayscaling a captured color image, even over one those oh-so-expensive monochrome cameras. I even keep my grayscaled images “three-channeled”, that is, in the RGB encoding (R=G=B, for monochrome), so I can add tone back into the image (bit-o-blue for cold metal, bit-o-red for vintage sepia, etc…)
Not the same experience as mixing potions and dancing with paddles and masks in the darkroom, but still quite satisfying… 
