Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
<cj@c...> wrote: "Perhaps as a group we have lost our
collective memory of what BW emulsion prints looked like."

Ah, thanks for this post; I saw it after I posted my "I"m confused" 
response to the comments on color in black and white prints. BUT, I 
find your comment quoted above fascinating because, as I noted in the 
bottom of my last post, I compared a new digital r2400 ABW print and my 
best effort Ilford Multigrade selenium toned print. My reaction was 
that the Ilford print looked surprisingly green in comparison under 
halogen lighting (I never would have predicted this). I also note that 
there is some metamerism in the Ilford print from Halogen to daylight. 
This sort of blows my mind. I am not so sure we have EVER been looking 
at "pure" black tones in our traditional printing....

Food for thought.