I’ve seen your black and white images and stand by my opinion. Why don’t you stop trying to forcefeed people FilmPack for black and white images? Just because you don’t see a difference doesn’t mean others don’t.
This “challenge” of yours is a farce in any case. With enough time and a good model, it would be possible to force PhotoLab/FilmPack to create something approaching a good crisp contrasty black and white image. I can replicate almost any processing myself in PhotoLab, given a RAW file and a finished image.
The issue is that the workflow isn’t there. Everything in FilmPack for black and white leads to images like the one we discussed: a colour photo desaturated.
Can you not leave it alone Joanna? There is no need to drive the people towards second-rate tools (FilmPack for BW) when they have easy access to better ones (Silver EFX for BW), fit for the purpose. Perhaps one day FilmPack will handle BW better. Today is not that day.