[filmscanners] Re: Grain, WAS:Digi, film and scanning in movies

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Oh, Puhleeese!

O.K., it's dye clouds not grains of silver, but whether it's either of these or 
CCD noise
in a digicam, the result is a grainy texture in the image.
Everyone here knows what someone's talking about when they discuss grain in 
color film, so
NO ONE is mislead. Your intentionally inflammatory statement goes out of its 
way to not
give the reader the information needed to make sense out of it. THAT'S 
misleading.




George Harrison wrote:

> >I took the G3 out on a hike with my Nikon F100 loaded with Kodak Portra
> >UC, which although touted as fine-grain for a 400 ASA film, is still
> >fairly grainy.
>
> Why do you refer to "grain" when there is NO grain at all in a processed
> colour negative?
>
> It's not only wrong it is misleading.
>
> George Harrison
>

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