The reverse: digital image to analog, how to do it?

<p>What kind of methods are there to do the anti-digitalizing: capturing your digital originals into B&W film? I think I remember reading few years ago about a test where they made some Sensia slides by photographing the digital originals from computer monitor. Any other methods?</p>

<p>Many pro labs have a film recorder which is a device that can make a slide from a digital file. Read this:</p>

<p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_recorder</p>

<p>B&w film has more dynamic range than digital capture but you would not get more DR than what was on the original capture. If there is digital noise you would now add that to the film grain. What are you trying to accomplish? If it is to make silver prints you can make digital negatives and contact print to silver and/or other papers. If that is the case run a search for Digital Negatives.</p>

<p>Back before everybody had digital projectors, the film recorders were common for people who wanted slides from their Powerpoint presentation. I wouldn't wait too long to do it--even now it may be a little like trying to find a punch card reader at the local computer center.</p>

<p>As Robert says 'You can't get a better image than your original digital image'. Taking a film photo of a good screen or large print out would seem the best to me.</p>

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<p>Taking a film photo of a good screen or large print out would seem the best to me.</p>

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<p>Not really, that would be the equivalent of taking a photo of a print instead of enlarging a negative. There is a generational loss of quality.</p>

<p>In my photo class last year a local photographer came in and showed us a technique which might help you.<br>

We took the B&W photograph, upped the contrast and then inverted the image. Then we printed that image on an 8x10 transparency which we then developed in the darkroom. whould that be an option? </p>