Digital BW, The Print

> Who may I ask is Claude Jodoin ?

Here is what a web search claims:

"Claude Jodoin
Claude Jodoin, Cr. Photog.,CPP, has been a photographer for 23 years. He is
Technical Editor for PPA's Professional Photographer Magazine, 7 years
running, and advisor for new Photography Certification Exams. He has an
extensive technical background in Industrial/Corporate Photography using all
film formats from 35mm to 8x10 to Digital He has written numerous articles
for PPA affiliates on Digital Imaging, Light theory, Metering, Special
Effects, indoor/outdoor Portraiture, and applied sensitometry in Color and
Black and White (Zone system). He has taught various workshops in the US and
Canada and enjoys doing Industrial, Commercial, Portrait, and Wedding work
for select clients. He has been involved in Digital Imaging since 1986,
pioneering the use of high-resolution laser photoplotters in electronics
imaging. In 1996, he bought his first digital camera and began an event
photography business, replacing all Polaroid venues. He used film for the
last time in Oct, 1999. All of his Wedding, Portrait, and corporate images
have been done digitally since. He opened a new all-digital Studio in 2000.
He was recently featured in Dean Collins US Photoshop tour on Digital Color
management and Workflow."

This is not mean to be insulting at all, just a statement of fact.  I have
no comment on whether that means he knows what he's talking about with
respect to the subject at hand or not, that will come out with further
discussion, not from what I see on his bio.

Austin