Digital BW, The Print

Tom Baker writes:

> Digital gives me far more control over every part of the curve than
> was/is possible with film and chemistry.  Can someone tell me/us what
> the big attraction/use is for this 'feature'?

As long as you are doing any type of conversion from RGB to B&W, whether
it be with a digital image or with a film scan, you've already lost most
of the information in the image, so your possibilities for B&W are very
limited.

While you may not wish to emulate a specific B&W film, you still need to
shoot B&W if you want the best B&W results.  There is no way around
this.