Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Alastar, Exactly! Ya can't tell nuthin' on a computer screen. Compare prints - that's where a comparison is meaningful. About a week and a half ago, I got an 8x10 print of this, and scanned it (sorry if some of you have already seen this, I posted it in another context about a week ago): http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1639375&size=lg I was discussing it with a friend on-line, and something he said made me take the print out and hang it on a wall, stand back, and look at it. I was blown away (not because it's a good shot)! The actual print takes on a 3D quality that just isn't there in the scan! The background fades into the - well, the background - and the young lady takes on a rounded "almost there" look. There is information in the print that is simply not in the scan. I'm not saying that a digital image, properly taken and printed, couldn't do the same, I'm just saying that showing a digital image on a computer screen, and asking if one can tell if it's digital or film misses the point of film entirely - that's to end up as a print. regards, frank Alastair Firkin wrote: > Well of course its digital: its a jpeg!!!! > > Even if it were originally a silver based print, the display on our > 72dpi screens is by necessity digital. Lovely shot, which "represents" > reality. Its path to my screen however has involved disitization either > at the scene of the crime or later ;-) > - -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html