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[filmscanners] RE: scanner dmax discussion
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
>
> This is just not an accurate statement: silicon (and similar)
> photoconductive photosensors are about the most linear of all
> detectors, and
> little else is used these days. One elegant variety of ccd-like sensor is
> strictly linear to within better than 0.1% over about 9 decades of light
> level. Nearly all non-linearities and most noise effects are introduced
> after the detectors and are minimal effects.
You mean nine octaves, don't you?
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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
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