The same could be said of grain vs detail. However, the *appearance* of sharpness is often improved with a bit of well-resolved grain.
Perhaps Knarf is right ... be happy, go fuzzy! ;-) G On Oct 30, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Tom C wrote: > In my mind it's difficult to understand the difference between > sharpness/unsharpness/detail and noise. It seems to me that an image > considered to be sharp, yet with a lot of noise, is in reality not > sharp > and/or contains less detail because the noise is itself replacing > detail > that would otherwise be there. > > Noisy picture = Yucky picture. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

