Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/24

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Re: Digital Leica and reality
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:13:03 -0400

> At 04:45 PM 7/23/01 -0700, Frank Filippone wrote:
> >OK.. it invents DOTS of ink.. so what is the difference other than a
> >technical definition.. Pixels are captured, some other technical term (
> >dots?) are printed.....
> >
> >those dots were not there in the original capture,,, and that is
> my point.,.
> >they ( whatever you wish to call them) are invented.
> >
> >The multitude need to understand clearly that a true 1:1 correlation of
> >captured pixels to printed pixels does not happen in a digital
> enlargement..
> >It does so happen in wet prints.
> >
> >Where do the extra digital pixels come from?  A math algorithim.
> >
> >Frank Filippone
> >red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
> It's called INTERPOLATION. All digital imaging algorithms, whether in
> silicon or firmware, interpolate the results of reading out a CCD or CMOS
> sensor.

No, Jim...that's not what he's talking about.  You're talking about
something entirely different.

He was talking about the pixels being printed...ie, taking a grayscale value
of 183, halftoning/dithering it, and printing it on an inkjet printer.  That
data is NOT interpolated.  Printer drivers don't do any interpolation to the
data.