Digital BW, The Print

> Also as mentioned below different BW film have different tonal
> characteristics.  For veteran BW photographers they may want to try to
> emulate the tonality of the particular film that they used to use.
>
> Saying that grayscale is grayscale or once you've seen one BW image you've
> seen them all...is certainly missing the point of BW
> photography...it can be
> fine art...were the subtlest changes can make a huge difference in the
> impact of the final image.  Certainly not all viewers will appreciate the
> differences...but for a trained viewer...these types of
> differences separate
> art from fine art.
>
> Robert

Hi Robert,

My particular scanner scans B&W, not as RGB, as all other scanners do, but
using a single ND filter.  I believe, from comparing images scanned on
various other scanners, that the scans I get from my scanner are a lot
sharper (and have no need to sharpen), and have better tonality.

Regards,

Austin