Dirk Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake
thusly:
> >Is the colour cast intentional? These (very fine, BTW) images are
> >not really black and white, as can be seen by loading them into an
> >image editor and switching to greyscale mode.
> >
>
> The color cast is as delivered by Kodak on their photo CD. I agree that it is
> not "true" B+W photography, but I still like it very much. I used the new
> color-process B+W "+" film from Kodak. Kodak did all the processing also,
> since I figured they would know how to best handle this emulsion.
I used to shoot T400CN (the pro version of same film) before I got a
"real" darkroom (I now shoot mostly HP5+). I found that rating at at
250 instead of 400 helped get a more neutral result.
Of course, if you're getting Photo CD scans, you can always desaturate
the scan afterward.
--cjb
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