Digital BW, The Print

"charles_bandes" <byronbulb@...> writes:

> 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.

The chromagenic stuff has very different grain characteristics; just
like color film, there's a small dye cloud rather than a sharp-edged
silver grain at each exposed point.  So it's a little bit less sharp,
but has much lower visible grain.  This could be a deciding factor
(either direction) for some photos.
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