Sigi,

I did one article in the last year on hybrid B&W demonstrating the advantages of C-41 process B&W film for scanning. I still keep a supply of the film and a good 35mm film camera myself for the purpose. But the article got little response, and my voluminous e-mail gets almost no mention of B&W. So maybe the interest just isn't there at the moment, partly because all the applications and many 3rd party plug-ins make it easy and effective to do.

Sigi,

I have been where you are with the thought BW was dead and no one really cared. I loved My Rolliflex and Contax 35mm. I shot all the APX 100 I could until it was gone. WHen I went to digital I felt I had lost much and for a period of time was disappointed on the results I got. Now I still go through many of my BW film scans but some of my favorites are done with digital. Film taught me a lot and laid a foundation for my move into digital which has made BW rewarding also. I now use a LX3 which I can carry with me.I shoot raw and then use Alien Exposure 2 in photoshop. It is wonderful software. There is not many articles on BW and very few on film but the creative abilities of digital in BW is endless.

I am a bit perplexed by this thread as typing "black and white" in the Search box yields over 1850 articles and mentions. We often do theme issues it is true but lately have been working to diversify each issue. So, as a very strong advocate of black and white and one who teaches black and white digital printing and indeed got his start as a custom bw printer, all I can say is that by no means is bw gone from sb.

Monte Johnson,

I have been doing B&W photography since 1952 and began writing about photography 20 years later. Is there anything more to say after writing about a subject that has been discussed in print for well over a hundred years? Not all that much except to the young newbies who are just getting into photography, and they can get as much out of the old stuff as anything new. Pretty hard to improve on Ansel Adams series of how-to books that were published in the 1940's or for that matter William Mortensen's competing series of instruction books from the same era.