Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W output from digital devices
From: Mikiro M <arbos@iname.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:09:36 +0100

At 9:49 pm +0100 3/2/99, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>You know about Man Ray saying Grain is the brushstroke of photography? I
>know in some sense the grain particle of the digital world is the pixel
>but I know that is now what you have in mind. I am aware of the many
>Grain and Noise plug ins, many of them third party and free that are
>involved with Photoshop. Though not the intrinsic makeup of the image
>the grain and noise potential have its uses. I have fun with them and
>would work with your water color look. That's all I know.
>Mark Rabiner

Thanks, Mark.  I'll try those plug-ins.

I sometimes look over my negs under a microscope and am surprised to see how
the grains look like.   Does anyone know the size of grains that enlarger
lenses can project on paper?  Am I right in assuming that when the
resolution of scanners and printers is high enough to visualise a single
grain of film,  such systems are *better* than any enlargers?

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Mikiro Mori
Strasbourg, Europe
http://www.members.tripod.com/arbos3/cigogne/index.html