Digital BW, The Print

Bob,

> =Why are they better? Well, having no film grain

That depends on the film.  Slower films, like 160 or lower, don't show much
grain, if at all, with 4k scanners.

> or grain
> =aliasing,

That's a scanner/film issue that I don't have.

> no 'pepper grain' microbubbles in the film,

Never seen that.  I haven't even heard of that one.

> no dirt
> =on the film, no film processing deposits,

Never have that problem...but you do have that nasty old dust on the sensor
issue to contend with...

> no scanner depth of
> =field problems

I don't have those either, and obviously, that's a scanner dependant issue.

I understand what you're saying, and for you, obviously, your happy with
what you've got.  But, don't believe that the issues you had, everyone has,
because I, and many, simply don't.

But, to bring it on topic, what about B&W?  You have to convert that nasty
old Bayer pattern RGB data to grayscale if you want grayscale.  That's going
to really give you a lot of information loss.  I really wish they sold these
cameras without the Bayer filter...with just a neutral density filter, so it
gave TRUE grayscale images.  No Bayer pattern processing...and I'd bet the
images would be pretty damn good in fact.  Surely a hell of a lot better
than Bayer pattern images converted!

Regards,

Austin