Digital BW, The Print

Tom Baker wrote:
> I must admit that I too don't understand why one 
> would want to mimic a particular film type.  

Perhaps for the same reason an immigrant might cook
a particular dish from his or her "old country" --
comfort food. We have a nature inclination to 
gravitate towards the familiar, and all the more
so if "the old ways" still seem to us a good fit.

After so many years of shooting B&W film, I found,
at least for myself, that there were perhaps two
of three different B&W films which I really liked in 
terms of how they would render tones and colors in a
black to white scale.

And so when I "moved to the new land" of digital, 
as it were, perhaps not altogether surprising if I
went looking for my comfort zone, the want to bring 
with me some of the "old country recipes" --
the want to find those plug-ins which somewhat 
mimiced the films I was most use to using.

So perhaps, as least for some of us, there is
an element of human nature in all of this; our want
to gravitate towards our comfort zone, to not
alway reinvent the wheel, as it were, but rather to
seek out those things which in the past we found
worked well for us.

That is not suggest we are necessarily closed
to trying new things, but only that we might
still like some of our "old country recipes",
as it were, and at times perhaps still want
to use these in this new "digital land".

If that makes any sense.

Hope that perspective is of some help,
CJ