Digital BW, The Print

> From: spersky123 [mailto:spersky@...]
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> It seems that Black and white film is tough to scan.  Does anyone
> here use color film or color slide film scans with conversion to
> black and white in photoshop for strictly black and white digital
> printing?
> is there a loss of quality in the final print when compared to
> traditional black and white film.

I've only done a couple shots like that with film and a film scanner, since
I switched to all-digital a few years ago. I can't honestly comment on
whether the results are necessarily better or worse, except for one thing:
with a color source image, you can defer certain filtering effects until the
editing. If you use Photoshop's Channel Mixer, you can even mix in negative
quantities, e.g., 150% red plus -50% blue to get really dark skies.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...