Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] why shoot black and white film?
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:15:22 -0400

drodgers@nextlink.com jotted down the following:

> For digital, I see little advantage to shooting b/w film. A while back I
> used XP-2 Plus, and even that was no big advantage over Portra 400VC, or
> for that matter TX or D400.

Take a look at http://www.ida.liu.se/~marho/photo/vpan/index.html for some
stuff shot on Ilford FP4 and developed in Rodinal.  Especially the buildings
in frame two have an etched or charcoal look to them that I don't think
would be possible to do with XP-2, or colour film.

I believe there is merit to shooting B&W, doing your own developing, but
using digital techniques for final output (whether to web or prints).

M.
 
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