Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not so, the exposed silver grains are black they can be in one of 3 colour layers (or 4 depending on the process/dyes) in this sense digital and film have always been the same philosophy, in the resolution sense film is digital because there are a discrete number of grains, irregular, poor control of size and position but discrete in quantity hence digital in this sense. Our hearing is digital too if you study the physiology and function of the cochlea. In fact everything consists of discrete entities so in the limiting case is digital in the sense that one cannot continue to halve its magnitude indefinitely. Frank On Sunday, February 22, 2004, at 09:15 am, Michiel Fokkema wrote: > > > Frank Dernie schreef: > > >> 3) Film is not strictly completely analogue either because of the >> discrete number of grains. At least changing film gives a choice of >> number of "silver pixels" lots on Velvia fewer on HP5. >> Frank > > Film is not digital because the silver grains can have any value of > color instead of a discrete number of values. > > Best regards, > > Michiel Fokkema > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html