Digital BW, The Print

Hello again.  With the Nikon scanner I have good wide-range results from
Kodak Portra 400 b&w, if you have a pro C-41 lab nearby.  So far as I can
tell it is a true 400 speed.  I have never had good results doing a b&w
conversion from color neg film, though I have had good results converting
Canon DSLR raw files to b&w  (the Capture One raw converter allows you to
see them in grayscale).  I prefer it to the raw program in PS CS, though it
is a fine point.  One problem: the Portra negs are not archival.  

Regards,

  --Ken Carney
    www.kencarney.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesus RV [mailto:jrv@...] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:23 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] On film
> 
> Dear all:
> 
> I recently gave an enormous jump. After asking for your wise 
> opinion on sca=
> 
> nners, I
> decided to buy a Nikon 5000. I could not find a reliable 8000 
> and the 9000 =
> 
> is too
> expensive.
> 
> I am, thus, back to film. DSLR is good, but, to my mind, 
> unsatisfactory whe=
> 
> n it comes to
> resolve big tonal gaps. And, ça va de soi, when it comes to 
> print the resul=
> 
> t. I will use it
> sometimes. In fact, I used it yesterday to make portraits of 
> one of our vis=
> 
> iting novelists,
> but I also took film cameras, both with Portra 160NC. 
> Although I wanted the=
> 
>  portraits to
> be in B&W, DSLR made me change my visualization techniques: 
> with the DSLR y=
> 
> ou have to
> shoot color, and you only think in BW when you are in front 
> of the computer=
> 
> .
> 
> Now that I am back to film, I am wonderig whether I should 
> keep this techni=
> 
> que or go back
> to thinking in BW from the very beginning. When I make BW out 
> of color film=
> 
>  (both
> negatives and slides), I find the result a bit flat, lacking 
> of tonal range=
> 
> . Maybe I am not
> using the right technique to do it (either Photoshop 
> Grayscale or TheImagin=
> 
> gFactory
> Convert to BW pro). I have also noticed that scanning BW 
> negatives is not n=
> 
> ecessarily an
> easy task.
> 
> Is there a good idea about what is the best film (BW, BW for 
> C41, color to =
> 
> convert...) to get
> a good, full tonal range picture in this conditions?
> 
> Thank you very much
> J
> 
> 
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