Digital BW, The Print

I had a few sheets of 4x5 TMAX 100 processed by dr5 (neutral  
process).  Transparencies were beautiful and scanned easily.

On May 1, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Greg wrote:

> --- 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.