Digital BW, The Print

Neil-

There's always the PS Filters>Add Noise>Grain approach.  I scan from 
Tri-X 35mm negatives so I don't need to do this and the 2400 prints 
look really excellent--better than anything I did on silver in 30+ 
years of darkroom work.  Just my 2 cents.  

Walt




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "neilsphoto" 
<neilsphoto@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
> <cj@c...> wrote:
> > Hello Walt,
> > 
> > >>2400 definitely does not do BO. Can you believe this?
> > 
> > >Why would you want to do black only when you have 1 black and
> > >2 gray inks, not to mention light cyan,light magenta and
> > >yellow for infinate toning if desired. Am I missing something?
> > 
> > Yes.  BO printing, especially using Eboni, has some unique 
qualities
> > that a lot of people like very much 
> 
> 
> Exactly what Clayton said.   The UT7 prints from my D70 files are 
too
> smooth and too clean. I know that makes no sense to some people.  
> 
> I like grain, I like Rodinal.  I like some kind of character.  BO 
has
> something.  If I am going to be shooting more digital than I am TX
> then I'd really want my printer to let me print BO if I wanted.
> 
> Neil