Re: filmscanners: Grain aliasing myth (was Minolta DiMAGE Scan & etc)

[TonySleep@halftone.co.uk (Tony Sleep)]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:29:44 -0400  Dave King (kingphoto@mindspring.com) 
wrote:

> You see grain size vary by tone/color in analogue prints too.

Yes

> It
> would be very interesting to compare CCD scans and inkjet prints to
> analogue enlargements.  I'm wondering if the grain variance effect is
> similar.

Exactly this, and the appearance of sometimes massively worse grain in 
dig. versions, was the original requirement for the grain aliasing 
hypothesis.

Regards 

Tony Sleep
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