In Black and in White
Black and White film seems to have survived the digital era better than color print or slide. I imagine the image quality of B&W negatives that gives it its staying power has something to do with the logarithmic nature of film exposure combined with the high dynamic range possible vs. color print and slides (and digital, too). In any case, it’s not going away any time soon, especially not for medium format artistic photographers.
These photos are 35mm on Kodak TMax 400, scanned off my Plustek OpticFilm 7500i
I haven’t yet had time to clean up these scanned images, so there’s scratches and dust all over the place. Normally I use the scanner’s dust-reduction mode to get rid of it, but it misidentifies dust on many B&W negatives for some reason.
Though film grain is much more prevalent than noise in digital cameras, I think it has a nicer feeling to it, perhaps because it seems more randomized in pattern.
