Digital BW, The Print

Don,

> CMOS and CCD chips are more similar to slide film than
> of black and white film, being as they have much less
> latitude.

Specifically, what latitude are you talking about?

> From basic camera controls in initial
> capture, there is not a method to stretch the latitude
> of the CCD.

Correct, and you can not compress the scene's range into that of the imaging
sensor.

> You can mimic the effects of n-1, n-2. etc., from
> various controls in photoshop

I disagree.  The idea of N-1 etc. development is to compress the image
density range to fit within that of the films (via both exposure and
development), and you can't do that with a digital sensor.  Data that is
beyond the capture range of the sensor is simply lost.

Regards,

Austin