Digital BW, The Print

It's not too hard to reversal-process B&W film at home. The appearance 
of grain is different -- not better or worse, just different -- from 
what you get with a standard B&W negative process.

And a clear film base is only required for reversal processing if you 
are projecting your slides. No need for a clear base with B&W slides 
when scanning, just as you don't need a clear base on B&W negatives to 
scan them.

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.
> 
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