On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 06:23 PM, chrisclose wrote:
I am shooting a series of black and white ads and was proposing to shootMy experience of exactly this scenario was that the B&W was considerably sharper. The colour neg/tranny > B&W looked fine on its own (and did have the advantage of controlling contrast) but looked decidedly furry next to the all B/W route.
colour negs, having them scanned for retouching before converting to B&W. I
was wondering if the experts foresaw any problems with this or should I just
shoot black and white in the first place and scan those negs?
(Most probably to be scanned on Flextight)
In emergencies we used to make B/W prints from colour negs, but apart from the contrast always being stuffed, they were never particularly sharp
Matthew Ward
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