Digital BW, The Print

Thank you Frank and others for the info to date.

Frank is of course right any potential advantages of color film would not really apply to my 
nudes.

I think that I dozed off during my intial post.  Should not have mentioned my website, but 
expressed a interest in other subjects that actually contain color (landscapes, etc.)

:)  sorry
Scott

 probably would --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Harold Goldberg 
<hgoldberg502@y...> wrote:
> Check Out Scott Graham's  website. You can subscribe to the B &  W  website
> and get all of these.
>  
> HG
> 
> 
> njfranknj <kolwicz@e...> wrote:
> 
> Scott,
> 
> If you *know* you only want B&W output and are skilled with filters
> and other specific techinques for it, there is no reason to shoot
> color negs. BUT, if you mix color and B&W in your print output, it
> makes a lot of sense to shoot color negs only.
> 
> I use Portra 160 in 220 MF size for scanning because of the 10+ stops
> of contrast range (under controlled conditions, a friend measured as
> much as 12 before all detail was lost). The cost of developing without
> prints is not significantly more expenseive than do-it-yourself B&W
> ($7 a roll), especially if you count the cost of your time; there is
> no need for on-camera filtration most of the time and many images have
> significant improvements and flexibility when a careful channel mixer
> conversion method for B&W is used.
> 
> Judging by the images on your webpage, I doubt, however, that those
> advantages will amount to much for your nudes, unless you decided to
> combine different colored lights and mixed image channels for some
> kind of effect.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> > Scott Graham wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Does anyone out there regularly (mainly) use color film to produce 
> > > gallery quality fine art
> > > B&W prints?
> > >
> > > If so, two questions:
> > >