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Re: [Digital BW] Quality of Color Neg Film vs B&W

2005-06-13 by Adam Maas

Have you considered shooting Chromagenic B&W? It processes in C-41 
chemistry, but produces a printable B&W negative.

I've had good luck in the few conversions form E100VS or RSXII 50 I've done.

-Adam



antmagrat wrote:
> I am considering shooting only color film (overseas) and having it 
> processed before I leave
> for the states, (either E-6 or C-41).  Then scanning and using grayscale 
> for B&W.  Is this
> crazy?  Will I lose image quality not using black and white film?  I am 
> a Quad tone fine art
> printer and make 24x30 images all the time.
> 
> Help?
> 
> MS
> 
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