Digital BW, The Print

---  "httivals" <hslavitt@c...> wrote:
  (one great thing is that, by using 
> selections, you can say have a red filter for the sky, and a more 
> balanced combination of the color channels for the remainder of 
> the image > 
 
> > 
> > What 120 colour films, preferably available in 400ASA, would 
> anybody recommend with the eventual aim of producing high 
> quality monochrome prints. How do colour films compare to 
> B&W films when converted to greyscale.
 

Hello, 
I myself use color negs often to convert them later through 
silveroxide Tri-x filter. This is a great plug in which allows You to 
control the way it is converting the image. There is also a red, 
yellow and green filter.
Of course it is possible to get the same results without it, but it 
is very convinient.
My mainproblem though while shooting with color neg and converting to 
bw is that grain of the colornegative is much different from the bw 
neg. The image is much softer and the grain is not so nice.
I wonder if there is a way to change that?
I thing that this problem is not so big with colornegs of around 
100ASA. I had nice results from Fuji Reala. but with faster films 
like 400 and 800 it is becoming an issue for me.
Maybe someone could share a workflow how he treats his images from 
colornegs for BW printing??
cheers,

Piotr