In which file format should I shoot black and white photographs?
Everything I found on the internet was about black and white image scans and general image file formats.
Answer
Shoot in RAW, and export on whatever format you like. JPEG for example.
For print it can be on TIFF. And you could export at grayscale at 16 bits. But that is only for specialized usage. For most users, JPEG is fine.
An additional note. If you are editing your photo using Photoshop, keep your working files in Photoshop, masks, layers. And again, export to JPEG.
I will summarize that you have 3 types of files.
1) Original Files (RAW, or your original JPEG from the camera)
2) Working files (PSD, Gimp file, the recipe of the photo in lightroom)
3) Output files (JPEG, some resampled photos to upload to some website, TIFF files to be printed professionally, the new JPEG file you converted to grayscale from the original color photo, etc.)
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