Noob film developing question

[Famous Graham]

Some of you have probably seen that b&w pic of the Edinburgh street through an arch. I've had a couple of people ask for a print, which is always nice.

However, the original slide film is colour and not *quite* as contrasty. I b&w'd the scanned TIFF in photoshop to get the pic you've seen.

I would assume creating a print from a slide is going to yield much better quality than from a 18meg (2k x 3k pixels ish at 240ppi) TIFF.

So the question is, can the lab create a b&w print from a colour slide and can they, if I give them a copy of the 'shopped version, approximate the contrast adjustment?

[V6GTO]

Yes and yes...if you go to a pro lab.

Martin.

[poah]

most places will give you the option of printing B&W from a colour image ( even the likes of asda) I normally conver to B&W and get that printed as the B&W converstion may not be to your likeing

[Famous Graham]

Yeah it is a "proper" lab. I'd rather get it done from the film than the TIFF as I assume enlarging would be better done from the film? I'll get em to do a 6x4 first, see how it looks.