Digital BW, The Print

Hi Steve,

When I tried scanning some BWs vs Color on a flatbed with light-back, 
it became quite obvious that BWs have a much greater dynamic range 
than color. I am now being much more successful using a Polaroid 
SprintScan 45 and VueScan's LogCompression with these circa 1900 
glass plates.

I would therefore imagine the converse true: for BW, you will need 
equipment with a light source that can output a wider intensity range 
than is probably available with a system designed primarily for Color 
processing in order to correctly expose BW film ....

Best,
Alex 
Orlando Fla

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis <stevek@e...>" <stevek@e...> wrote:
> Hi;
> When I first got into this I tried that approach, having 4x5 (not 
> 35mm) negs made and then printing onto silver. Two different 
> machines at two different shops produced less than stellar results 
> in B&W. I found the fine detail to be too mushy to go over 11x14 
> (from a 4x5 neg!) and the hightlight compression produced images 
> with no real sparkle. I did, however, see 35mm slides from the same 
> machines that looked quite good on all counts. Beats me why they 
> couldn't do it in B&W.
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis
> 
> http://www.stevekphoto.com