Digital BW, The Print

I just got the 5400 II this week and have been fooling around with it.  
400 speed B&W is pretty grainy. I suppose there are those with special 
film/developer combos and super careful processing, but that's just too 
much work for me.

The 5400 II has been working great on some old family C-41 stuff - the 
ICE and ROC are real time savers.  These ICE4 features do not work 
on "real" B&W film.  My negs are stored in sleeves in enclosed binders 
and even so the dust is a problem.

If I was really going to make a go of it, I would change to medium 
format and buy the Nikon super coolscan 9000 ED or LF and one of the 
new Epson flatbeds that will be coming out soon.  By that time, your in 
for some big money...you could buy a darkroom for much less :)