[Leica] Comparing film and digital resolution

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

Did 2005 call and want its "film vs. digital" debate back? :-)


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 1:46 AM, FRANK DERNIE
<frank.dernie at btinternet.com>wrote:

> By what mechanism could a single film grain be partially exposed?
> In an area of film the different grey levels come from some grains having
> changed and some not.. In a brightly lit scene most grains will have
> turned, in a partially lit area just some. Quite a large number of grains
> (thousands probably) are needed to show an area of grey.
> A single pixel can show a large range of greys on its own.
>
> Perhaps retirement leaves not enough to do. Maybe technical issues are not
> of interest to (or understood by) many, but if they were of no interest to
> anybody nobody would have ever discovered any of the processes involved to
> make photographs, either chemical or digital. So there would be no cameras
> and no means by which photographs could be taken, good or bad.
>
> I like looking at and taking pictures, but personally I am about 1000x
> more interested by the technology :-)
>
> FD
>
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net>
> >To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org>
> >Sent: Sunday, 13 April 2014, 5:21
> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Comparing film and digital resolution
> >
> >
> >Is this really correct?   A grain of film is a digital ( exposed or not
> >exposed)?  How would you then get differing grey levels in the same small
> >area?  All the grains in that area would all be exposed or not exposed....
> >Closer to the concept of printing.....
> >
> >
>
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