Just finished disposing of the last of my 8x10 equipment (for physical & fiscal reasons), which leaves me with only my Fuji 690WII for high quality image making. I know it'll never come close to 8x10, but it's a compromise I've decided to live with. I've shot some really nice stuff with it over the past 25+ years, and it's still damn near mint.
Here's the question: Since I can't switch up film types as with sheet film, I'm wondering if keeping the camera loaded only with color neg - Ektar 100 or Portra 400 - will still give me high quality black and white when scanned and converted in Lightroom or PS - as compared to TMAX 100 or 400 (or other). And I mean images that are pre-visualized and intended to be printed black and white from the get-go.
This allows the same post-exposure "filtering" as digital, but what about tonal range and detail? The hybrid work flow affords so much more control than printing B&W on Panalure (anyone else remember that?), and I'm sorely tempted to stick with just one film. What would I be giving up?
(I should add that I no longer have a darkroom, so no extensive development control would be possible with B&W film anyway. And I've hardly ever done that with 120, since I was seldom inclined to sacrifice most of a roll to salvage one or two wayward frames.)
Thoughts and comments?
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