I'd also recommend Kodak negative colour films (in my case, Royal Supra, which is I think unfortunately discontinued). They scan much better than Fuji in terms of grain particularly. In extremis genuine Black and White migth still have an edge though. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: [Digital BW] Quality of Color Neg Film vs B&W
2005-06-16 by AWStolzing@aol.com