Digital BW, The Print

I use the Kodak Portra BW - it's a chromogenic BW film. I love it.

(Mostly because I'm lazy and I hate doing my own film development -
years of being a color shooter spoiled me.)

The only advantage I see to the chromogenic stuff other than ease of
processing is that if you have a scanner with digital ICE or an
equivalent (I think canon calls theirs FARE) then you can enable
dust/scratch removal - this won't work with "real" BW film, only
color/chromogenic films.

If you don't care about that, I don't see any reason not to use
traditional film.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "smichener" <smichener@y...>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>     Does anyone have experiences good or bad with particular black 
> and white films.  I shoot 35mm and have been using Kodak's C-41 
> chromogenic BW film and my Canon 4000 dpi scanner.  I recently 
> purchased tanks, chemistry and equipment to begin developing true BW 
> film (Kodak or Ilford).  I was hoping to improve the contrast and 
> quality of my images.  Of course, after my purchase, I have now read 
> that the C-41 BW film perhaps scans better than true BW film.  Any 
> advice would be appreciated as I have not used any of my new 
> equipment or many rolls of film.  Thank you in advance.
>                                 Scott Michener