Digital BW, The Print

john dean wrote:

> One of the very interesting developments in digital raw workflow
> centers around the ability to shoot 3 bracketed frames - over, under,
> and in the middle, drop them into PS CS2 with instant registration and
> combine them instantly as one very smooth entity. It's a  major
> improvement in dynamic range over the one frame 35mm camera

Perhaps over chromes. Not over negatives. One can easily capture the 
entire subject brightness range from featureless shadows to highlight 
detail on a white flower in bright mid-day summer sun with either color 
or B&W negative film. Here's an example:

http://www.achromaticarts.com/big_image.php?path=flowers&img_num=2

With the breeze blowing, there's no method I know of that will let you 
capture this image with any digital imaging device commercially available.

Which proves what exactly? Nothing other than you can do some things 
with film that you can't do with digital. There are undoubtedly many 
things you can do with digital that you can't do with film. The two 
technologies are intersecting sets - neither is wholly contained within 
the other.

So back to the OPs problem - one should use the technology with which 
one is most comfortable. If that's film, so be it. If that's digital, so 
be it.
--
Bruce Watson