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Subject: Re: PP: Digital Grain
Shel is right. The look of film is more than just grain. But it's not a lot more than just grain. I've been showing my book to some art buyers for major ad agencies and some photographers reps. At the mement, the color pics in my book is a mix of digital and medium format printed at 11 x17. All of the prints are inkjet. The film prints were scanned from the 6x78 negs. I find that even the most knowledgable critics are frequently unable to distinguish the digital from the medium format film. That's not to say that there are no differences, but they are minimal to be sure.
By the time you have scanned the film and output it to inkjet, you have pretty much equalized film and digital anyway.
I get to scan a hell of a lot fo film these days, and I am finding that more often than not, scanned film just doesn't look quite as good as a digital original.
William Robb
