Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/02

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Alien Skin Exposure
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Sat Dec 2 22:08:34 2006
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At 8:06 PM -0600 12/2/06, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>I like digital for color as I don't think color and grain are a good
>marriage. But I'm not too crazy about digital converted to grayscale. I can
>live with color print film converted to grayscale, but digital is just too
>smooth.
>
>Jeffery Smith

I don't necessarily mind grain in B&W, but I've shot too much large 
format to require it to have grain, or to think that grain 'makes' 
B&W. When shooting 35mm one gets very used to grain, so we come to 
think of it as 'natural' while grainless is 'artificial'.

Actually, it's the other way around, it's just our sensibilities that 
have gotten modified.

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