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

["Dave King" <kingphoto@mindspring.com>]

I've seen scanned grain from Fujicolor 160 negs that seemed about
equal or larger than scanned Fujicolor 800 negs, so I suspect you're
correct about the frequency intermodulation theory.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Sleep <TonySleep@halftone.co.uk>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Grain aliasing myth (was Minolta DiMAGE
Scan & etc)


> 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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