Digital BW, The Print

I will third that. The Kodak CN film does well too. What I like about
it with the Howtek scanner is that it helps in the extreme highlights
which helps with these drum scanners that do a better job with shadow
detail. The shadows don't have the interent contrast of textural
detail that the better Tri-X or TMax type films have, but with cuves
in Photoshop we have so much more control of that then in the darkroom
era when I wouldn't use the CN at all except for portraits. All in all
they produce the smoothest result for medium and small formats. I like
to shoot it on the RZ67. They don't make it in 4x5 do they?

John



> ...
> > 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
>