Digital BW, The Print

Martin and Others,

I have been using transparency (predominantly Fujichrome Velvia and 
some Provia) because it allows me the best option for color. Lately, 
however, I have found this solution less than perfect, particularly 
in the dense regions (shadows for tranparency, highlights for 
negative). I could upgrade my scanner from the current LS 2000 to LS 
4000 which supposedely had greater Dmax. Or, I could start using 
negative film. My understanding still is that b/w negative film 
cannot be scanned really well with the Nikon scanners. Not wanting to 
give up the terrific scanner for color, would color negative film be 
a good solution? If so, how does one go around getting N-1 conditions 
for color work? Would underexpsure of 1 stop, normal development cut 
it? Which color negative film?

I apologize for the long list of Q's. Would appreciate any feedback. 
Thank you.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> rc,
> 
> As you can see there are many favorites and it really is the 
film/developer
> combination that counts. For myself it is FP4+ with some Tmax 400 
when I
> need speed or want to do contracted development. I develop either 
in Gordon
> Hutchings PMK pyro developer or my own pyro formula in a Jobo drum
> processor.
> 
> In general, in developing film with scanning in mind, I would 
suggest you
> decrease your film speed a bit, say 1/3 stop and reduce your 
developing
> time. A classic N-1 development. The reason is that scanners do an 
amazing
> job at pulling shadow detail from conventional B&W negatives but 
are rather
> bad at blasting through dense highlight areas.
> 
> Martin Wesley
> 
> http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "richard cohen" <rsc236@y...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:44 PM
> Subject: [Digital BW] your favorite film
> 
> 
> >
> > i'm new to this group - and my bet is that you all have gone 
through this
> already umpteen times.  but i'm curious, and i'd like to do an 
informal
> survey -
> >
> > (a) what b/w film are you using these days?
> >
> > and (b) if you have a little more time to answer - any other
> experience/advice you can lend about types of b/w film and a dry 
darkroom
> would be helpful.  particularly the "heavies" TMX, TMY, CN400, XP2, 
HP5,
> delta.  and also, i've heard rave reviews about the agfa multispeed 
b/w
> slide film.
> >
> > thanks to all for your help.  rc
> >
> >
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