My own experience is that if you want sharp B&W, use a sharp color transparency film. I like the B&W images that can be extracted from Velvia and Kodak's Elite Extra Chrome.
Learning to examine each color transparency for its hidden B&W has introduced a new dimension to photography for me. Stan Schwartz -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: B&W from Color And a related question: If you wanted to shoot in color, yet have the flexibility of converting to B&W digitally (so you don't have to carry and switch between films), what color film would work best, or would you use? I particularly like Ilford XP2; is there a color negative film that would give similar characteristics to XP2 when converted to B&W? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body