Digital BW, The Print

santacruztacean writes:

> It seems serious photographers are still
> shooting film, but printing digitally.

There are still strong arguments for film capture and there will be for
some time, but in virtually ever other part of the workflow, digital has
no disadvantages to speak of.  As a result, a great many photographers
have switched entirely to digital _except_ for image capture.

Note that "digital" does not include printing (printing and capture are
always analog in any system). Ink-jet prints (often erroneously called
"digital" prints) are not yet the rule for color, as far as I can tell,
mainly because they are still inferior to wet prints. For
black-and-white, they seem to compete well, though.

Personally, I still shoot all my black and white on film, but I scan the
results immediately, and if I need prints, I have them prepared on real
photo paper from the digital scans.  I do exactly the same thing for
color.

  -- Anthony