Digital BW, The Print

Happy to read that my (Tending toward OT) question has generated some
new ideas and ways of shooting & working.

:-)

Denis

 The idea of using the multishot 
> approach never crossed my mind until I looked at the PhotoAcute
program.  I just happened 
> to have saved a couple of sets of those 3200 shots that I had
thought to run through HDR 
> so they were available to try with the PhotoAcute.  
> 
> I should have some time next week to shoot something with the
PhotoAcute multishot 
> approach in mind.  One thing I noted about the PhotoAcute method was
that color noise was 
> extremely reduced without losing any detail at all and that I could
further reduce luminance 
> noise in ACR until I was unhappy with the detail loss.  I'm not big
on 3rd party software 
> having always felt that PS had the technique somewhere inside it but
this looks worth a bit 
> of time.
>