The fine grain BW films like Tmax 100 and Tech pans look signifigantly better even scanned than Grayscale converted scanned color films. JCO
-----Original Message----- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Film is Dying? (was Pentax is Dying?) ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: Film is Dying? (was Pentax is Dying?) > Why start digital if you never used digital before? You have to start > everything at some point don't you? > > Never shoot BW? Oh I see, but what if you wanted to try? By selling > ALL your film bodies and saying "never use film again" you have burned > your bridges and limited your creative possiblities. To me, with 35mm > film cameras so cheap now, it is worth having at least one > just for fine grain BW because the results are still better than APS > 6MP Digital for that application.... If they are scanning film for output, it doesn't matter. Want black and white? Convert the colour image. Unless you are printing in a darkroom, there isn't much advantage to shooting black and white, and some significant disadvantages. William Robb
