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If you want to have at least one or two examples of excellent hybrid B&W photography in your "eye calibration folder," do this: go to Shorpy, spend a good deal of time carefully selecting five pictures you like a lot and that you suspect are of the highest technical quality, and order prints of those pictures, in any size you like. The cost isn't exorbitant. The Juniper Gallery in Madison, Alabama, makes outstanding examples of B&W film negatives and glass plates scanned and printed digitally. You might end up with one or two pictures that are not their absolute best, just by the luck of the draw, but I'll bet if you start with five you'll get at least one or two (and quite possibly more) that are close as close can be to the best that can be done in that particular hybrid workflow. That's been my experience at least, and I hope it will be yours too. They do a very nice job from the small sampling I've seen.
That will give you a good example, or examples, of what how good that hybrid workflow can look. And some of the pictures are really charming. As modern prints not made in the medium they were intended for, they're not collector's items, but they're very enjoyable to own and good to look at.
Mike
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