----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist"
Subject: Re: PP: Digital Grain
I'm going to show color prints from film and color prints from digital. I see thousands of prints a month. I can't control the experiment if all the prints are not outputted from the same source. The discussion here centered around a visual difference that was derived from the source: film vs. an optical sensor. To compare those two elements, you have to use the same output device. If there's more than one variable, it's not a controlled experiment.
Cool. I guess I do that on a daily basis.
I look at several thousand prints a week from all sorts of digital and film sources, all coming off the same
machine.
It isn't too difficult to tell one from the other, although I haven't really quantized all the visual clues.
I find the scanning is quite the great equalizer.
It really brings the print quality down in my end of the business.
William Robb
