Digital BW, The Print

Austin writes:

> ... as you should know, B&W film renders
> different colors the same.

That depends on the exact colors, and on the exact film.  And filters can
further modify the results.

> This is all quite interesting, as MANY people
> convert RGB images to grayscale, and they look
> quite good.  If this was so inaccurate and
> horrible, then how DOES that work so well?

Nobody ever said it wouldn't look good.  It just will never look identical
to a B&W capture of the same original scene.  In some cases, it won't even
be close.