Digital BW, The Print

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 07:46 AM, B. Alex Pettit Jr. wrote:

> May my results be quite biased by not
> processing the film myself ?

Your results can be hugely biased by not having control over developer 
and processing.  You don't need to do the processing yourself, but you 
do need to make sure that the lab you are using is using the best 
developer for the film.  X-tol with Tmax 100 will give excellent 
results...but so will PlusX125 with Acufine.  As I mentioned Tri-X 
(320), shot at 250 gives outstanding results for scanning when 
developed with Acufine.

Honestly, I think one of the biggest reasons that people say that cheap 
digital cameras can equal the performance of film is poor processing of 
the film.  Now that is a real variable, but it is something that can be 
improved.

Robert