Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla 
<E.Dinkla@...> wrote:
> 
> Reversal B&W will be Agfa Scala in practice, not really suited 
> to scanning either with the density range directed to 
> projection. Availability of film and processing in view of 
> AgfaPhoto being bankrupt should be considered too.

I've done some casual research on the reversal of B/W film, it seems 
there are a few films that have a clear base and reversal is posible. 
But again I've only read about it. It's in my list of "things to try 
someday". There is a store in the UK that sells kits for reversal 
developing some B/W films including Scala.


> 
> Like I wrote in another message on another list today: 
> analogue film manufacturers should think of some R&D on color 
> and B&W film that makes them more suitable for scanning and 
> sell that film for that specific work flow sacrificing the 
> normal analogue print qualities and/or projection quality of 
> the films. That could keep film in competition with pure 
> digital photography for a longer time. 


Kodak claims to have done this (to a limited extent) with their "new" 
motion picture films. I think they only mention color film, but they 
do claim that it scans better than the older motion picture films 
that they've produced. Here's the scan of an ad that ran many months 
ago in the magazine Broadcast Engineering (a TV trade magazine):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/Greg_E/KodakAD.jpg I forget 
what the url is, but I think you can get there from their main pages 
and select the motion films tab.