Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter Marshall
<petermarshall@...> wrote:
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> My favourite black and white film for scanning is actually Ilford XP2, 

Me too, particularly for 120. Not sure how well the grainier shadows
on problem negs would look from 35mm to larger prints.
But the 120 I have done, people think it's 4x5.
One of it'as greatest features is it's amazing upper exposure
latitude. You can overexpose like crazy in high contrast scenes, and
it gets it all ithout blocking up. Then, it's easy to scan because
that density is dye, not hard silver grain.
In some ways it may be a nearly ideal B&W film for digital.
On the other hand, some people seem to hate it, there you go.
Tyler