Digital BW, The Print

personally, I think they are all expensive pointless tools... but I 
do have a good friend who likes buying things like this just to hold 
his hand till he actually learns how to do something... but you have 
to ask yourself, "Are all your capture devices color calibrated / 
white balanced exactly the same as these developers' who make the pre-
sets?"  If not, you can't expect the tones in your scan/digital image 
to come out with the same tones as they measure for any given film.

Ok, that said, why not save yourself some money and just buy Fred 
Miranda's little action?  It's only 15 bucks and will probably give 
you just as good a starting point as any of the other "canned" b&w 
conversion tools...

my 2 cents,

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "A. Huntley" 
<Alan.Huntley@c...> wrote:
> First, a very Happy Holiday to all list members celebrating 
Thanksgiving today.
> 
> I'm once again re-evaluating the use of RGB-to-grayscale conversion 
tools and plugins. I know that a few list members use the film 
filters from silveroxide.com, and a few use Convert to B&W Pro from 
imagingfactory.com. I have only ever done a brief evaluation of B&W 
Pro. Any thoughts as to which product would be preferred? Why would 
anyone spend $75 per filter through silveroxide when B&W Pro contains 
most popular film conversions for $99?
> 
> Thank you for any insight provided.
> 
> Alan Huntley
> 
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