Digital BW, The Print

>Is it smart to still shoot B&W film for scanning and printing B&W
>prints, or can we just use color film and turn monochrome in
>Photoshop? In other words, is there as advantage for using the B&W
>film for B&W digital prints over using color film?  Thanks


If you process your own black and white negatives, and/or photograph/process
using the zone system, there are advantages to using black and white fillm
(better control over the negative, lower cost). If a lab processes your
black and white film there's probably no reason to use it, the lab can
process color as well (or as poorly) as black and white and color can be
easily converted b&w in Photoshop, plus you have the color option.   I've
never used a lab but I assume the processing cost is about the same for
either (though from what I read there aren't aren't that many labs around
that process black and white these days).  I assume one of the reasons why
black and white film has been enountering difficulties (see Ilford, Agfa,
Kodak's disontinued b&w films) is because of the ease with which color can
be converted to b&w for digital printing.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mltphoto" <mturlington@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 11:13 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Color vrs BW film for printing BW




Is it smart to still shoot B&W film for scanning and printing B&W
prints, or can we just use color film and turn monochrome in
Photoshop? In other words, is there as advantage for using the B&W
film for B&W digital prints over using color film?  Thanks