Digital BW, The Print

You are "Manipulating" the development times for the film far from
"normal". This is definitely a form of "manipulation."

> Using the "Zone System" up front is hardly manipulation.  What you are doing
> is capturing as much information as you can on the film.  How is that
> manipulation?
 
> but...if that less that perfect negative is missing a chunk of tonality,
> that could have been captured by taking the time and understanding to do it
> right in the first place (yes, I did say "do it right"), there is nothing
> you can do, the information is gone.

Depends on how much info is missing. Photoshop can do a LOT to make a
bad negative into an excellent print.

> > but it will always be your vision that gets
> > you a good print and not your technical perfection.

Nope, it takes both

Can't tell you how many times I've seen a Great image but a bad print.
Spoils the whole presentation.

:)