Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good afternoon Walt, The same basic rules apply. You can certainly render your black, gray and white cats what ever value you wish with digital just as you can with film. In the simplest possible terms: b&w neg film = expose for shadows and develop to control highlight rendering color neg film = expose properly and use a good lab (pretty much means no variable contrast controls) color transparency film = expose for highlights and shadows will fall where they will digital capture = expose for highlights and control the shadows (and highlights) in post processing In more complex terms: with b&w film we have contrast controls in the film exposure and development relationship as well as in choice of paper contrast grade and paper developer choices and toning choices All of that, and more, is also available with digital using other terms and tools such as curves, white point, black point, contrast, different filtration of the color information, etc. Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07 On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Walt Johnson wrote: > I have a plethora of pussies. Black, white, and in-between. It's > not too farfetched to conceive of making my white one grey or my > black ones white. Again, we come back to developing our film the > old fashioned way.