Digital BW, The Print

I have done it a couple times with good results from 100 speed film, 
but while I like the control in converting to b&w I have been more or 
less hooked on T400CN film since it scans so well and is so much 
faster (I have been rating it at 320 though).  The grain is also more 
like a 100-200 speed color film.

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. 
DeRocco" <pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: spersky123 [mailto:spersky@s...]
> >
> > 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.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...