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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Sebastian Oakley

Black and white photography helped save my Nikon D800 from the scrap heap!

Nikon D800 B&W.

There has been a discussion, ever since the first color film canister rolled off the production line, about whether black and white is more timeless than color. If you asked me that 10 years ago, when I was knee-deep in several of the best Nikon cameras of the time, only shooting color, I would have said: "Of course not, we all see in color." 

However, now I'm a bit older – and maybe wiser? I have fallen in love with black and white photography for that "timeless look" and it looks like something different in a world full of color. I now shoot 95% of my work in black and white. Because of the process, it helped save my best DSLR in my kit, the Nikon D800 from the scrap heap and became a camera that I truly enjoy using again.

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