Besides the sharpness of B&W film that others have commented on, B&W film has much greater dynamic range than color film (some film approaches 12 stops), an you can control contrast in 'difficult' situations via Zone System manipulations.
Lots of reasons to shoot B&W - ----- Original Message ----- From: "don schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 5:42 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: scanning TMAX 3200 o o o The BW CN films, why use them? If you want BW images, shoot with color neg. That way you can use channel blending in Photoshop to get the BW values just the way you want them. > Don ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
