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You have heard that at the basic capture level, film really works as digital (2 bits per exposure site), whereas digital is really an analog signal from each exposure site that is then converted to numerical representation.A black and white in digital similar to analog? I think is quite impossible but all the analog processing is annoying … I have my rolleiflex 2.8F but.. 12 frames per roll, processing, scanning.. arggg
That would be a really bad description of film. If you have ever seen grain under microscope, it is not like a half-tone image, but a complex set of densities and structures. You really can't talk about "exposure sites" as if they were pixels.You have heard that at the basic capture level, film really works as digital (2 bits per exposure site), whereas digital is really an analog signal from each exposure site that is then converted to numerical representation.
You should try to have a play with a Leica monochrom. It's stunning. Not the same as film, but a very rewarding way to shoot B&W. This might pave the way to the new mono DB from Phase.A black and white in digital similar to analog? I think is quite impossible but all the analog processing is annoying … I have my rolleiflex 2.8F but.. 12 frames per roll, processing, scanning.. arggg
I think the IQ260 Achromatic is what you might have in mind.... I'd love to get my hands on some files and print them on my K7 piezography printer.You should try to have a play with a Leica monochrom. It's stunning. Not the same as film, but a very rewarding way to shoot B&W. This might pave the way to the new mono DB from Phase.
I am hoping the Leica SM (in the future).You should try to have a play with a Leica monochrom. It's stunning. Not the same as film, but a very rewarding way to shoot B&W. This might pave the way to the new mono DB from Phase.
What I find works to achieve this look - I stumbled across it in my own images by accident - is to shoot with a "fat pixel" Kodak-CCD back (9 microns), shoot at high ISO (400 is where my DB maxes out), underexpose, convert the RAW to a colour JPG without sharpening or denoising, and finally convert the JPG to 8 bit greyscale, maybe with a contrast boost. This seems to emulate the coarse grain and limited DR of B&W film like Tri-X. And the more you underexpose and push the RAW to compensate, the more it looks like superfast/pushed B&W like T-Max P3200 or Delta 3200.A black and white in digital similar to analog?