Digital BW, The Print

At 08:57 AM 2/18/04 +0100, you wrote:
>Paul Roark writes:
>
> > I participated in the PMA show last week in Las Vegas and asked one of the
> > Canon representatives about a B&W sensor.  This person knew of no plans for
> > such.
>
>That does not surprise me.  The same market that is jumping the fastest
>onto the digital bandwagon probably has never even seen black and white
>prints.  It's unfortunate, though, since a high-resolution, true
>monochrome image sensor would produce very nice black and white indeed.
>
>

As technology changes I think it is useful to keep looking back.  It's not 
difficult to see why new methods were better but what was given up for the 
improvements?   Is a film-based picture inferior for the less than one 
percent doing salon photography or just a little inconvenient?  You know 
the answer.

AZ

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