Digital BW, The Print

Anthony,

> > ... as you should know, B&W film renders
> > different colors the same.
>
> That depends on the exact colors, and on the exact film.

Well, the statement was that it occurs, and it does occur, and it does occur
all the time.  It don't think it's relevant what colors and what film.

> And filters can
> further modify the results.

Please drop the filter thing.  It's not part of the discussion.  If it
interests you, fine, but it has not a WIT to do with my claim.

> > 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.

Well, it depends on what you mean by identical and close.  I STILL believe
exactly what I've said, that the information is in RGB to produce a visually
identical B&W tonality, and no one has shown that it won't work...and for
good reason, because it DOES work.

The only reason it won't be close is if someone did something incorrectly.

Austin