Digital BW, The Print

He's right. When you create a histogram of that Tiff it really isn't
smooth at all. We need a 16 bit file from a good scan that hasn't been
compressed if possible.

It's up to Amadou, he's in charge, but I still think a drum scan from
a real world photograph from a large format black and white neg of a
full range subject with a decent amount of total black would be best.
Second  best would be a medium or large format direct digtal capture
from a really good back. I don't have the perfect negative or I would
offer to supply it.

John