Personally i make 8x16" negs on acetate and contact print to home-made emulsion on glass. Make your own paper!!! My fave mono paper was ilford Galerie Gold MG FB (multigrade fibrebase) ... in a class of its own.
35mm film - even B&W - is chemically designed to be "pan-chromatic" meaning it darkens under any visible color, whereas B&W paper has a "sensory fall off" - if you will. This characteristic could be removed, but it lets you see what you're doing so we kept it.
Personally i make 8x16" negs on acetate and contact print to home-made emulsion on glass. Make your own paper!!! My fave mono paper was ilford Galerie Gold MG FB (multigrade fibrebase) ... in a class of its own.
But film can record red...
35mm film - even B&W - is chemically designed to be "pan-chromatic" meaning it darkens under any visible color, whereas B&W paper has a "sensory fall off" - if you will. This characteristic could be removed, but it lets you see what you're doing so we kept it.