Digital BW, The Print

There is a simple experiment that could be run. Set up four color lasers 
against first a white back ground and then a black background and point 
them toward the camera and take an RGB image and take an image on B&W file.

Then one could see how well one could EXACTLY match the B&W image by 
processing the RGB. My guess is you couldn't.  The two types of sensor 
packages (RGB) and intensity (B&W) are making different measurements. 
The question of can RGB duplicate be processed to duplicate every B&W 
image should be easy to answer.

The other question is RGB good enough is a matter of opinion. If I 
though so I would not still be shooting B&W.

Truman

Austin Franklin wrote:

>
> 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
>