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In Reply to: RE: I LOVE B&W photography posted by pictureguy on April 16, 2021 at 23:16:38
great experience you guys have here. I do a fair amount that ends up black and white but I'm no expert. My Olympus PEN-F has a quick 'mono' toggle on it that produces results I like. Some scenes beg for it. Mono settings can be adjusted to 4 profiles, including an IR profile, and can be set for varying amt of grain for each profile. Fun to play with. And of course there's always Photoshop/Lightroom. I have NIK SilverEfex Pro for b/w editing too, which I use fairly often. It has profiles for all those old film you all mentioned, I think, plus a bunch of others, and color filters, grain adjustments, and a lot of toning options - sepia, cyanotype, silver, coffee, etc etc. All adjustable. Even Lightroom has it's own set of b/w presets.
I also have several phone apps for b/w I use for shooting and for editing. Hipstamatic and Snapseed mainly but there are many others, including some that give uncompressed files, such as 'Hueless', MPro, Dramatic B/W.
"Color is everything. Black and white is more." - Dominic Rouse
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The list of B&W films goes on for pages.
I used a LOT of Kodak stuff, Pan, Plus and Try-x. But later did TMX / TMY / TMZ The last? An incredibly sensitive film which I used at weddings when the lights got LOW. I'd good at some outrageous ASA value and 'push' process in T-Max developer.
For a while, Kodak even made a B&W film for processing COLOR (C-41) Chemistry. I would bring that to the local processor and tell them process as Last Roll before big chem change. That stuff was awful.
Never used Ilford or Fuji or any of the other choices. But I DID use lots of Fuji film since I preferred it to what I got with KodaColor. But for weddings? I'd use NC160 or NC400 in 'pro packs'.....When processed right? PERFECT wedding results.
And for transparencies? (slides) I made choices and evolved, there, too. From Kodak EktaChrome at first and near the end? Provia or Velvia from FUJI.
Too much is never enough
I have experimented with color channels....and removal of them THAN desaturate.
You can get some different effects which mimic older B&W emulsions.
One of the writers to this thread gave some good input on Tri-X Pan which was 'the standard' for a long time.....of Press / News guys before color came to the Newspaper...
And many photogs raised with digital need to be educated on the difference between GRAIN and NOISE in an image.
Too much is never enough
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