Digital BW, The Print

Dear Daniel,
I'm a lurker on the BW printing list and have just seen your site and would like to commend you on your work. It's great and inspiring.

I shoot almost totally BW (only 35mm due to lack of money). I'm about to do a major update of my photos site, many of the photos of which I am no longer happy with - which is a good sign of progress.

I'm interested that you're using a Canon FS400U - are you pleased with it? I have heard that it has some quality control issues (some people love it, others hate it) and that it can't extract shadow detail from slide film. But I shoot 90% BW (Ilford Pan F at present), so that might not be so much of an issue. But if you want to sell your work, slides are preferred for colour, so that may be a consideration.

Any thoughts?

Keep up the good work, anyway.

best wishes,
Richard

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