Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" <deanwork2003@...> 
wrote:
>
> 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
> 

Believe it or not, Ilford made it as large as 11x14 at one time. Not sure about 4x5 now, would 
have to check...
Beginning to sound like codgers, hard to believe this wasn't that long ago.
T