Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Thoughts on digital and the impact on Leica
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:13:03 -0400

Rob,

> The digital file examples posted in the review are extremely
> clean - I doubt
> such results are possible from film scans.

"Clean" has absolutely nothing to do with resolution.  You can get a
perfectly sharp ("clean") image from a TWO pixel image, one pure black and
one pure white.  You simply can't get sharper than that...but it has
absolutely NO resolution to speak of.

> Whether the claim is bullshit or not, the examples are pretty convincing.

Judging image quality from 72PPI web images is really not very scientific.
You also don't know how good the actual film image is to begin with, how
well it was scanned etc.

Regards,

Austin

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