As some of you know, B&W is not usually my thing; but I went out for a bike ride in the Prater (Vienna) this evening and took my little Sony RX-100, set to B&W. When I saw the results in Photolab, I was surprised that the raw files were in colour and only the jpgs were B&W. But it took only a moment's thought to understand why, and also to understand why the Leica and other monochrome cameras are inherently better for B&W.
This is the famous Riesenrad (giant ferris wheel) as you enter the Prater:
And this shot of the other side, towards the sun (very Third Man, I thought):
A little further on, I found this:
Which looks much better to me in colour:
And even better when you see the clown in colour up close:
We are now in the Prater proper, a park which is 4 km long. I stopped off to take a closer look at the Carl Ziehrer memorial:
Carl Ziehrer in context:
And a deeper look into the distance (also rather Third Man):
With apologies for lapsing into colour earlier...
David