Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Op 2-sep-06, om 19:04 heeft Ted Grant het volgende geschreven: > Yes I know some folks almost barf about shooting at 3200 and go on > about grain, oops pardon me... "noise'' ;-) Another one of those > stupid non-photographer electronic words I find bloody annoying > when it could've been called "electronic grain" then everyone who > were real film shooters would've known what the effect looked like. > And what the hell digi people were talking about. I do think that there's a big visual difference between grain and noise. When seen from a (too) short distance, I always felt that grain produced beautiful and naturally irregular transitions of tone (esp. in B/W). Must be that beautiful chemical reaction in negative development on the silver. The regularity of digital noise makes it visually less attractive for me. So I wouldn't just change 'noise' into 'digital grain'. There is a difference. And noise is less acceptable than grain. Just a feeling... Philippe