converting color negatives to b&w digital files

[WDavidPrice]

I'm reading a lot about why it's better to shoot color film even if I want a b&w print...that I can get a color file and a b&w file from the same exposure by converting the color print to b&w in photoshop and still have the color file if I want it. But, somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember that b&w film has a greater tonal range than does color film. How about it...can some of your digital folks help me out?

[david b]

The homepage says it all...

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[Jorge]

I'm reading a lot about why it's better to shoot color film even if I want a b&w print...that I can get a color file and a b&w file from the same exposure by converting the color print to b&w in photoshop and still have the color file if I want it. But, somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember that b&w film has a greater tonal range than does color film. How about it...can some of your digital folks help me out?

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[Dave Parker]

Oh Crap....

Duck,

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[sanking]

I'm reading a lot about why it's better to shoot color film even if I want a b&w print...that I can get a color file and a b&w file from the same exposure by converting the color print to b&w in photoshop and still have the color file if I want it. But, somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember that b&w film has a greater tonal range than does color film. How about it...can some of your digital folks help me out?

Feel free to ask this type of question on the hybrid sub-formum in alternative photography. Go to APUG.ORG's "Gray" Area Subforum.

Sean created this sub-forum and the information posted in that area is in many ways cutting edge, of the type you will not find anywhere else on the web. Mike Ware, who has probably contributed as much as anyone in the world to the use of alternative processes, mentions the apug hybrid site as a source in of one of the article on his web site. Apug.org should be very proud that a person who has contributed as much to the use of alternative processes as Mike Ware would cite our hybrid site.

Sandy

[laz]

I can't get my mind around the possibility that anyone who has been registered here since last February could have written that question in any innocence?

[noblebeast]

What Sandy said - look for the "Alternative Processes" section in the main forum menu, and then click to enter the Gray Area Sub-Forum.

[David A. Goldfarb]

I'm reading a lot about why it's better to shoot color film even if I want a b&w print...that I can get a color file and a b&w file from the same exposure by converting the color print to b&w in photoshop and still have the color file if I want it. But, somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember that b&w film has a greater tonal range than does color film. How about it...can some of your digital folks help me out?

You could print on Panalure and file the prints however you want to.

That said, I'm moving this to the "Gray Area."

[Dave Miller]

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What was that you said Jorge? Can't quite get far enough away from the screen to make it out. :rolleyes:

[smieglitz]

Well, this question actually has me curious about something. I've heard photographers go on about how using a digicam automatically gives you built in contrast filters effects if you isolate the image from one channel, say the red one, and only use that information in the monochrome version. While that sounds good, you would only be using 1/3 of the sensors and so I would think the resolution of the final monochrome image would suffer greatly, especially when compared with film. Or am I mistaken? Are the silver halide crystals uniformly sensitive to all wavelengths the film is sensitive to or are some doped to be red sensitive, others green-sensitive, etc., within the same film emulsion?

Joe