It’s fun, like shooting a long while ago, but no chemicals or waiting a week for the prints.

I read that you have to learn to see in black and white, plan the contrasts. OK, but I have a perfectly good electronic view finder, much better than back in the day (like there were none).

The OM Systems OM-1 is very customizable, and easy, so I have taken advantage of it for monochrome shots.

I have my C1 dial set for ;

• Monochrome (red filter, extra-sharp, high contrast)
• Single shot mechanical (electronic shutter scans data to the sensor, mechanical hits the sensor in a single pass maybe sharper)
• Half shutter focus
• RAW + JPG (just in case I want color too)
• Shutter 320 sec, not slow or fast, a good start

Editors can still work very well with JPG files. For years I made the mistake of believing an image was cast in stone unless in RAW. Certainly you can do less, but a good editor works fine. RAW editors (like DxO Photolab) only do RAW, but Lightroom, ON1, NIK, Topaz, all work with other file formats too.

So, yeah it’s just fun.