Digital BW, The Print

Mark Hahn writes:

> I think you need to have a better understanding on how to convert to
> b&w before you can judge a color film for this task though.

My understanding is excellent.  I've already explained why color film
can never exactly duplicate the results obtained from true black and
white film, frequently and at length.

> You can mimic a film's response to color very well if you tweak the
> Channel Mixer and color curves while converting to b&w instead of just
> using a "big button" approach.

Why mimic if you can just shoot black and white to begin with?

> Read some more tutorials on converting color to b&w.

Instead of writing them?