The previous discussion and concrete examples were quite enough for me.
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I simply ran out of time and breath to argue (DxO’s lack of support for mobile photography, and DxO’s lack of support for more than the latest versions of macOS have killed much of my enthusiasm for their products and arguments around them).
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Whereas my large B&W prints attract plaudits from fellow professional B&W photographers, who also come to me to print their images.
I don’t like that style in black and white at all. Why are you attempting to force me to say unpleasant things again?
There’s ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza, Lebanon is under siege and our WEF politicians in Europe are trying to kick off WWIII. There’s far more important things to worry about than who likes what kind of BW images. We can disagree about what constitutes a meaningful rendering of a black and white image.
Answer to @PopsInABox
Out of the Nik toolbox, I only use Silver EFX. Color FX is impressive but too much trouble for what FilmPack can provide inside PhotoLab. This means my version of Nik is still at 3. DxO block upgrades beyond one or two versions now, so I’ll probably never have the most recent version. This means you can buy Nik, use it for Silver EFX and probably never upgrade it.
Black and white is not a large part of my work (I mostly see the world in colour, and that’s going back to the time when I bought black and white film and shot it too, in parallel with colour, in the pre-digital epoch. It’s not that long ago. The first serious DSLR affordable to consumers (barely) was the Canon D30, which launched in 2000 (with just 3MP).