Digital BW, The Print

Djon writes:

> There's no more place in professional photography for film, except
> perhaps as a novelty.

Zzzz.  I've been hearing this ever since the first lame digital cameras
came out, and it's still not true.

> Many professional DSLR shooters will shortly be dumping their mere 12
> MP cameras for something more professional.

Strange: a "mere" 4 megapixels was "film quality" only a short time ago.
Before that, two megapixels was film quality.  Before that, a megapixel
was film quality.  It seems that "film quality" always equates to just
slightly less than whatever digital cameras currently provide.

Remember, unless someone starts building true B&W digital cameras, a
move to digital is going to have a serious impact on B&W, too.
Desaturating a color digital photo is nothing like shooting B&W on real
film (or even shooting it with a real B&W digital camera).