Digital BW, The Print

Clinton

(and all the other experts of course)


For aesthetical and practical reasons I am a fervent believer in
BO-printing,too.

Today  I again came across your favourite conversion method

http://www.cjcom.net/articles/digiprn7.htm

similar to Russel Brown's one mentioned in Katrin Eismann's standard
work "Photoshop Restoration and Retouching"

I seem to remember that you have tried the PS plug-in

http://www.theimagingfactory.com/

"Convert to B&W"

some time ago yourself (In the meantime this has become my standard
conversion tool). 

What's the main difference, please - not talking about the price, of
course. Does it have certain advantages? Why do I ask you this question:

I used to be a LEICA M6 man, available photography /street photography
being my field. ISO values of 800 / 1600 / 3200 were very much the
standard then. As I had to give up the wet darkroom, I ventured out
onto the thin ice of small digicams. Right now I have a CANON S60. I 
am pleased that it has a 28mm (equivalent) lens. But I could do with 
 a higher ISO rating and improved S/N ratio of its sensor. In one of
your recent posts you quite rightly pointed out that the megapixel war
will come to an end very soon and that other sensor features will
become more and more important - I for one am longing for smallish
high ISO sensors of course.

Things being as they are, I am trying to make the best of it. "Noise
Ninja" coming to the rescue. And yes, perhaps I should minimize the
information in the blue channel in order to improve the results when
pushing things to their limit in an available-light indoor-situation.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Chatzebussi