Digital BW, The Print

Please do not understand me wrong, but this question is too complex to 
answer swiftly -
and I do not want to start another digital-film war.

There is a common misunderstanding among the amateur photographers 
switching to digital.
When a person wants to have good results from the 35mm film camera buys 
a Nikon F3,
Nikon N90s, Nikon F5, or Canon 1V spending a sum of $1000 plus on a body 
alone.
No one is satisfied with the Point-and-shoot camera since the results 
are not going to be great.

Now,  the same apply to the Digital cameras, with one adjustment:  price 
for the comparable
equipment is 2-5 times more than for the film camera.  
We can't talk about a $600 digital camera - in a way point-and-shoot 
camera with the
point-and-shoot optics and expect the panacea for our problems.

To answer the question asked in the original post - in this context - 
there is none.

I  bought 1Ds and a top glass spending... a lot. I use it on a regular 
basis for jobs.
 And I still shoot sometimes (I admit - not too often now) BW 120 film 
for myself and scan it.

For most of you guy - most of the times - the most efficient and quality 
oriented workflow will be
still shoot BW film on a quality camera and use even a Kodak-Pro-CD 
(72MB files) - instead
buying a crappy camera and struggle with the inferior output.

Just think about it.

Happy New Year for all of you.
Jack

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degan00115061 wrote:

> Greetings
>
>      This is my first post to the group.  Most of the discussions
> seems to be about printers and paper.  Does anyone have any advice on
> which camera to use for B&W photography.  Does it matter?  I mean,
> are there camers that have a function for B&W?  If so, is it just as
> well do take color shots and turn them into B&W on a computer?
>
>     I just got a Sony DSC-P10 Cyber-shot for Christmas, and I'm
> wondering if there is anything out there for under $600 that is
> better for low-light without a flash and B&W?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Jeff
>
>