Digital BW, The Print

John,

You suggested that "film is relatively cheap to shoot". Just a comment on 
the relative cost. My lab just raised the price to process a single sheet of 
4x5 to $5.50. I shoot polaroids to proof my exposures. So for shooting a box 
of 50 sheets:

Film (50 sheets)   $95
Processing (C-41)   $275
Polaroid (2 boxes of 20) $140
Total $505

Brings my cost to roughly $10 per exposure. Fortunatly every exposure I make 
results in a perfect image (wink wink.)

Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sinar001" <jnolly@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] analog/digital Megapixels


In this digital world, flexibility is really the answer. While I can proudly 
say, "film is dead", I
completely empathize with Tyler's love of film grain for a "specific look". 
Sure, film is
relatively cheap to shoot, but then you have to process it, then scan it. . 
. the workflow
with a digital camera is so-o-o much easier and quicker.

Wouldn't it be great if someone like Andromeda software 
(http://andromeda.com/main/
photoshop.php) could be talked into developing a grain filter that would 
satisfy the likes
of Tyler, as Ernst has suggested? Then you could shoot digital, get creamy 
grain-free color
images, then convert to B&W apply the grain filter to achieve exactly the 
kind of look you
want.

John Nollendorfs


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@...>
wrote:
>
> I know. I just had a client leave here 10 minutes ago. She said, "but
> you know, I like noise". There you go. Its a whole different ball
> game. Sometimes digital capture is really interesting, and sometimes
> it is a total nightmare and you never know from one day to the next
> which it will be.
>
> john
>
>
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
> <tyler@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@ wrote:
> > >
> > > ...Higher image
> > > resolution, be it in film or digital, sounds like a better idea to me!
> >
> > Exactly!
> >
> > Regarding the rest, and the original questions, I guess my point is
> > that there are no straightforward answers. The more I do this stuff
> > the more I realize any solution depends on a number of factors and one
> > approach may suit only a given set of problems.
> > If the discussion were severely limited to say, 8x10 prints, or maybe
> > portraiture only, or both, things get more straightforward very quickly.
> > I made a print here for an excellent photographer, very graphic and
> > abstract, motion blur, nighttime, shot from a train window with a very
> > small digital point a shoot... she had me make a 30x40.
> > It's beautful.
> > Tyler
> >
>






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