Digital BW, The Print

Firstly, Im trying to scan on a Nikon LS4000 and I can never get 
consistent scans of true B&W film so I gave up on that approach - 
this is about digital B&W so the purity isnt there anyway.

I tried the chromogenics and found that these films tend to lack 
sharpness - especially XP2 and scanning at 4000 dpi. But then 
thinking about it, using a chromogenic and telling yourself that your 
shooting B&W might be therapeutic but its analogous to printing B&W 
with a CMYK ink set.

Ive now come to terms with shooting colour print film and using the 
channel mixer in PS as a proxy for filter control as the best way I 
can get a digital smooth-grain B&W image. I primarily shoot with an 
M6 these days so I'm often concerned about keeping shutter speeds 
under 1/1000th in daylight with the apeture opened so the best film I 
found for this process is Fuji's NPC 160 portrait film.

just another view...
Craig