on 10/13/03 7:57 AM, KARL SCHULMEISTERS at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Besides the sharpness of B&W film that others have commented on, B&W film > has much greater dynamic range than color film (some film approaches 12 > stops), an you can control contrast in 'difficult' situations via Zone > System manipulations. > > Lots of reasons to shoot B&W - > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "don schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 5:42 PM > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: scanning TMAX 3200 > > > > o o o > > The BW CN films, why use them? If you want BW images, shoot with color > neg. That way you can use channel blending in Photoshop to get the BW > values just the way you want them. >> > Don Karl,
That applies to Silver B&W being used in a wet darkroom, but does it apply to C41 B&W being scanned for digital printing? The dynamic range (tolerance) of color film is great, and can be pretty effective if you stretch the contrast in digital processing. I do like the quality of the contrast of my C-41 B&W scanned and manipulated digitally. If you print the unmodified scanned image, it is indeed very flat. Berry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
