Digital BW, The Print

Anthony,

I worry that you seem to be hooked on one particular artificial
interpretation of the world - that produced by Tri-X film, and seem to
denigrate other artificial interpretations. Others may like some of the
other interpretations, whether produced in Photoshop or some other chemical
mix in a plastic film. I don't see why one interpretation is any more valid
than any other - apart from the one fact that you like it.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@...>
>
> > It's a subject that has concerned me for a
> > long time, as I've hinted at in past posts
> > about my fear of losing the look and feel
> > of particular films.
>
> I worry about it, too.  There is a very widespread but mistaken belief
that
> the images produced by any B&W film can be duplicated by some magic
> manipulation of a color image in Photoshop.  That just isn't possible.  In
> fact, you cannot even duplicate the images produced by a different color
> film or a different electronic sensor in Photoshop.