Digital BW, The Print

Mark,

> Ummm, most film scanners take 3 simulanious scans, one for each
> channel,

Correct, but two film scanners do in fact have a grayscale channel, and
that's the Leafscan 35 and Leafscan 45.

> Also, since current scanners aren't capturing actual grain clumps the
> benifits of silver based film is lost in the scanning process.

Please explain what leads you to draw that conclusion.

> As to
> needing to shoot b&w film for best results, I strongly disagree.  My
> gallery hung a group show with mine being the only "digital b&w"
> printed on an inkjet and it stood up quite well to all the
> traditional emulsion work surrounding it... in fact, not one of the
> other photographers could fault my work...

I'm sure the image was fine, but without the ability to 1) see it, and 2)
see it with a duplicate image taken with B&W film (correctly), it is
physically impossible to see whether there would have been any advantage to
shooting B&W film, so this is really a useless data point (WRT any
comparison to B&W film).

Regards,

Austin