Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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? - -- Mikiro Mori Strasbourg, Europe http://www.members.tripod.com/arbos3/cigogne/index.html