Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Kobrin"
<kobrins@w...> wrote:
> Is there any point in working with the color temperature and tint 
> sliders in Adobe Raw if the image is ultimately going to be converted 
> to monochrome?  Intuitively, it seems that the color balance should 
> affect the tonal range as it affects each of the R, B and G channels 
> differently.  However, that is no more than an uneducated guess.

Try it and see. I will...though I won't convert to monochrome to get
my B&W... I never convert to monochrome when I'm printing B&W from
color (using QTRgui). There seems no reason to convert, since I use a
traditional Zone System frame of reference (ie the real world is seen
in color when you shoot B&W film...I visualize B&W from real-world
color just as I do when I see color on a monitor and print B&W).

Djon
  
 image stabilization really does work well.  I have shot at the 
> 85mm end of the zoom (135mm in 35mm terms) at a 30th with reasonable 
> results.

This is very interesting. When you say "reasonable," do you mean "as
good as shooting at 1/100? (ie do you gain two steps, the shutter
equiv of 2 full f-stops?). 

> 
> Steve