Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chromogenic BW film beats the pants off color neg film converted to BW. Converted color neg film to BW always creates ugly splotchy grain pattern. TCN and BW400CN is gORgeous ! IIlford's XP2 was grainier and contrasty but lovely in its own way. Sad to see 220 BW400CN go away. Eric On 2/11/07, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > 1. Really: do not ever just grayscale a color image to get B&W: it's > very ugly. Much better stuff around to get what you look for in > inexpensive plug-ins and so (BW Pro, Alien Skin, the B.D. Colen > method, ...) > 2. If you talk analog prints, this might be the case. If you talk > digital prints: no difficulties at all. > > Philippe > > > Op 11-feb-07, om 22:58 heeft Lawrence Zeitlin het volgende geschreven: > > > Question: > > > > I have never used a BW chromogenic film. I've done all my B&W > > photography with silver based films developed in the traditional > > way. But in the last couple of years I've abandoned my wet darkroom > > because of skin allergies to chemicals. I have been scanning all my > > color negatives to create a data base, using a Minolta Dimage 5400 > > scanner. Apart from taking a long time, the ICE facility is > > marvelous for eliminating all those nuisance dust spots. > > > > My specific question is - if I standardize on a readily available > > color negative film, say ASA 100 or 200 Kodak Royal Gold, scan the > > negative, then turn it into a grayscale in PS, will the results be > > comparable to a B&W chromogenic film. The Kodak web site seems to > > indicate that if you want prints, then silver based B&W films are > > preferable. Their reasoning seems to be that the dyes and base > > color of BW400CN makes printing difficult. But if I want to use an > > ink jet or laser printer, does it matter? > > > > Larry Z > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >