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Until very recently I completly agreed, but I've been using Silver Efex Pro for a couple of weeks, and that's given me results that I'm very much happier with than conversions done inside Lightroom.
I don't think the results are exactly the same as film, but conversions from M9 DNG files look sufficiently good that I no longer feel I have to have a film camera with me to shoot decent B&W.
Partly it's because it uses terminiology that I'm familiar with "make it look more like Tri-X", "add a red filter", but even when it's not aping film it still somehow looks better than a stright Lightroom B&W conversion.
B&W vs. Color, not Film vs. Digital
This point came up in the comments to the previous post, and I thought it might be worth moving up to a post of its own. "Film vs. digital" has never been at issue for me at all. Rather, it's always been a question of black-and-white vs. color for me. This is just my personal viewpoint. The gre...
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