Digital BW, The Print

How about color negative vs. B&W negative?  Given the various 
advantages of being able to manage the conversion from color to B&W 
after shooting the image, as opposed to using filters before hand to 
do that with a B&W negative, is the tonality range of color negatives 
sufficiently close to the B&W negative (i.e., enough greater than 
color positives) to make this option respectable for someone wanting 
to end up with a quality B&W image?

Bill Iverson

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Justin Myers 
<jmyerz@a...> wrote:
> You will get a much better tonality range from B&W neg film vs. 
> transparency. Both are easy to scan. You can get up too 8 stops 
with 
> B&W and roughly 3 or 4 stops with transparency.
> 
> Justin
> 
> On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 01:05 PM, cwright752003 
> <cwright752003@y...> wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the process of moving from traditional analogue black &
> > white fibre based printing to digital inkjet printing.
> > I am wanting to find information/research/opinions on whether to
> > continue to shoot b&w neg or to shoot colour transperancy
> > (which is much easier to scan?)and convert to greyscale in
> > photoshop.
> >
> >
> >
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