Yes, but film grain looks better than digital noise. So making the latter look the the former is a net win. It's not like the DSLR's aren't much cleaner at a given high ISO than film is.
-Adam Tom C wrote: > Yes very nice to leave crap lying around in the image... Thanks Pentax, > you're managing to reverse 100 years of technology advancements in the field > of photography. :-) > > Grain has never been the overwhelming desire in the manufacture of film or > printing of images except in those relatively rare cases where it's used to > an artistic advantage. Other than that it's reduction has been the holy > grail. > > Come on Shel... > > Tom C. > > >> From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: RE: PESO; A smoke on the sidewalk >> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:36:33 -0800 >> >> Oh, almost forgot .... I really like the grain on this one. Very nice the >> way Pentax has decided not to obliterate all the noise and allow some >> character to show in the images. >> >> Shel >> >> >> >>> [Original Message] >>> From: Paul Stenquist >>> K10D, DA 50-200 at 200mm. I set my K10D at f6.3, 1/200th. Put the >>> camera in TAV mode and let it select the sensitivity. This shot came in >>> at ISO 1600. Converted to BW in the channel mixture. I like this >>> shooting mode. Would not have wanted to think about ISO when I pulled >>> the trigger on this. But knew what kind of shutter speed and aperture I >>> wanted. Just an average shot of someone on the street, but a good >>> experiment in regard to how I want to work with this camera in these >>> kinds of situations. >>> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5358043 >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
