Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] digital quality
From: John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:02:18 -0400

on 26/7/00 4:18 pm, Paul Chefurka at Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com wrote:

>> From: MIKIRO [mailto:arbos@mac.com]
> 
>> What I miss in digital printing is grains!  How many pixels are
>> required for visualising each grain?
> 
> On my Polaroid at 4000 ppi I can see the grain in a Supra 400 neg, but it's
> not clearly defined.  For clean grain definition on this film I'd bet 6000
> ppi would do it (time for an Imacon!).  Of course, if all you want is grain
> I'd bet there's a Photoshop trick or two that would give you all you'd ever
> need :-)
> 
> Paul

I get my APX 400 grain LOUD AND CLEAR at 400 ppi.

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Johnny Deadman

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