Re: PP: Digital Grain

[Herb Chong]

i find it fairly easy to tell the difference between a film and a digital 
print from a camera of at least 5MP on 8x10. in nearly all cases i prefer 
the digital source and in many cases, if i care to, i can emulate the film 
look of Provia or Velvia with a medium amount of work. i never do it because 
i don't think it is worth it.

when i shot a lot of B&W, i used to use and deliberately induce grain for 
its artistic effect. after i started shooting color regularly, grain was my 
enemy and anything i could to do remove it was better, as far as i was 
concerned.

i feel the same about adding grain to a digital source as i do applying a 
grain removal filter to a film scan, i do it because i like what i get.

Herb....
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From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: PP: Digital Grain


But I was ,with one exception, able to tell the digital shots from
the film shots that
Cotty presented to those of us who went to GFM (The photo meet in
North Carolina)
last year.  As  BIll Robb said (I paraphrase) there is something
about them.