In-camera it is balanced. In Sony Express Underexposed. Setting B&W points, and more

[george013]

I have died and gone to heaven! This is identical to the manual I already have up till page 76 then it goes into advanced stuff. I have a lot of reading and experimenting to do. Thanks!

Brian,
Creative Style includes BW. Shoot a RAW in BW, the display of the camera will give you a BW-image. But what will the different converters do? I think the converter shipped with the camera will give BW, others a colored image.

George

[DanK]

Creative style is set to standard.

That's probably at least part of your answer. At least on Canons, the standard picture style is not close to neutral because it is designed for people who want to use jpegs SOOC. To start, you need to pick the style that does the LEAST to the image--no contrast boost, no saturation boost, etc. I don't know what that might be for your camera. Canon's have "neutral" and "faithful" options and allow you to create your own as well.

If you google, you will find lots of postings about this, but I don't know whether you will find any for the alpha.

[blakemcguire]

That's probably at least part of your answer. At least on Canons, the standard picture style is not close to neutral because it is designed for people who want to use jpegs SOOC. To start, you need to pick the style that does the LEAST to the image--no contrast boost, no saturation boost, etc. I don't know what that might be for your camera. Canon's have "neutral" and "faithful" options and allow you to create your own as well.

If you google, you will find lots of postings about this, but I don't know whether you will find any for the alpha.

I've found this useful myself; especially on my Fuji X100. I also tend to underexpose if I go by what the camera display shows me (on both of my cameras) so sometimes I find it helpful to turn down the display brightness, too.

[joebranko]

On my monitor the PNG looks brighter and sharper also.