[Leica] B&W with no darkroom

[Adam Bridge <abridge@idea-processing.com>]

I'd like to explore B&W with my Leica but I have no dark room and, I have to
admit, really no interest in having one.

What's the alternative? I guess I could process my own film, that doesn't
really take a darkroom does it and then scan the negatives into photoshop.

Can I reliably send out B&W to a lab?

What sort of film scanner should I be looking for given that I'm a novice. I
have a Mac G4/450/MP that is my video editing system so I have tons of
horsepower and about 200 GB of disk along with lots of archival storage, the
least of which is CD-RW. So storing and managing images isn't an issue.

I'd love recommendations about how to procede. I'd like to become good
enough to make a quality B&W image.

I plan on doing most of my color work with a digital camera at this point.

Thank you,

Adam Bridge