Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/07

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Subject: [Leica] Speaking of color and BW
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Fri May 7 18:54:21 2004
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Black and white is not just black and white.
The means by which each color is converted to a grayscale tone really matters. When shooting with film, that's what the colored filters do, and different film/developer combinations produce different tonal ranges by using subtly different transformations of colors into black and white.

Brian
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