[Leica] digital or analogue

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

Hi Didier,
what definition of digital are you using here? In what
way does film have "no digital character at all" ?
AFAIU it -is- digital, like our ears, for example.
Frank

--- Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com> wrote:

> 
> >Not sure where the digital vs. analog got
> started...  This isn't the first
> >place I've seen it.  Traditional film is *not*
> analog.  If you want to
> >classify it between digital and analog, you'd have
> to classify film emulsion
> >as digital, too.  :)
> 
> We can talk about if film is analog or not, but
> there's no doubt it has no digital character at all.
> Film emulsion is not rasterized in a straight
> matrix. The grains sizes are varying, and their
> arrangement is stochastic and three-dimensional.
> Even the sensibility may change from grain to grain
> (one of the reasons why grain can be seen on shots
> with low light).
> 
> If film is analog or not, doesn't mind very much, as
> long as everyone knows what's meant with analog.
> Going further might turn into hairsplitting... ;-)
>  
> Didier 
> 
> 
> 
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