Digital BW, The Print

> > > > What would you do with those tones?
> > >
> > > I would go crazy with the tones!  i would love them and feed them and
> > > keep them forever and ever!
> > 
> > Unless you're scanning for another species, they are completely 
> useless, and
> > you will never see them in a final image that contains all the range of
> > tones from the image.
> 
> Are you saying that todays scanners capture all the tones in any given 
> negative or chrome, as long as their density is not out of the scanners 
> range?

All that you and I can see.
 
> Because if you are I don't agree. Film is analog, and while it might 
> not be practical to call it infinite, it still has an awful lot of 
> tones.
> 
> You could use a scanner like that and see them in a print if you 
> expanded a small section of tones to use the whole gamut.

I suggest you do some research on the capabilities of the human eye...