Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla 
<E.Dinkla@...> wrote:
>
> Tyler Boley wrote:
> 
> > We are now seeing a lot of over-enlarged imagery. The above 
depends on that degree 
> > IMHO. There comes a point at which the eye needs SOMETHING in 
focus. Sharp grain is far 
> > more pleasing to me at any size than mush with nothing sharp 
anywhere.
> 
> That describes my love/hate relationship with B&W grain quite 
> well. But with color grain/clouds it is far less  appealing to 
> me and I guess to more people. So you may have the strange 
> conclusion that an analogue B&W image allows a larger print 
> than a color print (analogue and digital prints) while there 
> isn't more data available but just because there is that 
> convention in taste about B&W grain. Part of the appreciation 
> of BO printing in this list is related to that. All this 
> probably has much to do with book printing, text, all that 
> pure B&W graphic material we know since written language 
> became black ink on white paper. We are less pleased with hard 
> CMY/RGB dots on screens and papers.
> 


How does this effect differ (if at all) between the "traditional" B/W 
films compared to the C-41 process B/W films? I seem to recall a 
couple people saying the C-41 based films work very nicely for 
scanning, but I haven't had the chance to directly compare the two 
types of film. Something I guess I should do one of these days. And 
then there is the reversal B/W process to consider, is the grain the 
same after it is reversed to provide a positive?