I don’t know of any commercial photographers using LF black and white these days, so I’m not sure what we’re arguing about here.
Is there a way to get perfect midtones fidelity with B&W film? Maybe.
Is it a make-or-break point for todays LF photographers? I doubt it.
Interesting images exist in the extremes, not in the comfy middle.
There’s still a bunch of people on this forum who, when lens coatings are discussed, say things like “I don’t mind, I never shoot into the light source anyway”. Yet most of my best pictures were made doing exactly that.
I also see a lot of posts from people who have convinced themselves that classic photographic scenes have 17 stops of dynamic range and that everything outside the studio is out of the range of B&W film.
Let’s be a little more bold! The photographers who inspired us to pick up cameras certainly were…
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