Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Originally film did require sharpening. Even when it was competing with the earlier traditional, and primogenital, media like painting. The first solution was to change the sensitizing component, of which there were initially many. Secondly, photography forced the industrial goose to lay a better egg in the field of optics. All combine to provide what we call elements of resolution. The last, and really great, tomes to address these earlier questions of techn? were published by Ansel Adams. Though it should be acknowledged that he used his chapter in the Graflex manual of photography as a spring board for those latter publications. S.d. On Jun 4, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Frank Filippone wrote: > Probably an example would aid me...... > > What I do not understand is why digital "requires" sharpening, when > for the > past 150 or so years, film did not. > > Or was it that film did not have this facility ( other than some > pretty > obscure and relatively rarely used masking techniques) and > digitally, the > facility is only a mouse click away? > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net > > I think you actually need to play with a digital image to understand > what's going on, Frank. The result is very real and obvious even on > images you wouldn't suspect would react well. > > Would an example help you? > > Adam > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information