Digital BW, The Print

Hi Jerry,

> I am looking at
> VERY good images.

Whether an image looks "VERY good" or not, has nothing to do with the image
containing "better highlights and shadow detail".

> If
> you can't get better highlight and shadow
> detail out of photoshop and digitial than you can a darkroom print, you
> simply don't know your craft very well.

I don't understand what Photoshop as to do with it.  Either the information
is there in the image file, or on the film, or not.  I am specifically
talking about the number of stops the medium is able to record, I don't care
about printing, as that is comparing apples to adverbs.  You can print
scanned film digitally the same way you print digital camera images.  I
believe printing is an entirely different issue, and I separate that
out...though I know you seem to believe film should only be printed
chemically, and always choose that workflow for comparison, for what ever
reason.

B&W film can record up to 15 stops of image information.  Digital imaging
sensors can't use compensation development, obviously, and are subject to
simply the sensitivity of the sensor, and they are limited to 11/12 stops at
this point in time.

Regards,

Austin