Someone (sorry, I lost track of who) asked: > > > this has probably been discussed to death before, but > > > what's the reason to use chromogenic bw? if you take a color > > > negative film, and print on bw paper, wouldn't it give you the > > > same result? am i missing something very basic here?
Yes -- that a colour negative printed on colour paper will generally yield a colour image, but a chromogenic b&w negative printed on colour paper is supposed to produce a monochrome image. A colour negative printed on b&w white paper will produce a b&w image, yeah. Then someone else said: > > Variable contrast black and white papers often don't react well to > > colour negative film. and Mr Robb remarked: > Gaak. It doesn't matter if the paper is VC or not. In my limited (and mostly not recent) experience, it was *much* easier to print from colour negatives onto non-VC b&w paper than onto VC. ERN
