Digital BW, The Print

> >> Really? Absolutely? I thought silver particles made for a
> higher density
> >> than dye clouds.
> >
> > Were you using a point source enlarger for B&W?  If so, you
> might have been
> > getting a "Collier effect".  I believe the Nikon scanners that
> use LEDs may
> > have this same issue...
>
> To my mind it should be the same issue whether the determination is being
> made with a densitometer, condenser, coldlight, point source, LED, or
> eyeballs and a lightbox. I propose that you can get a greater
> density range
> from both BW neg and color chromes, than you can from color neg.

Clearly color chromes, no doubt there, but my measurements of color negative
film vs B&W negative film show that color negative film has a higher (not by
much, but it is higher) dynamic range when measured with a densitometer
(which uses a diffuse light source mind you).