[Leica] Why the mad rush / toxicity / DARKROOMS & CHEMICALS.

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

Surely both are floating dots? The difference is only size and randomness. I 
know B&W film has silver grains randomly floating in gelatin as the 
sensitive element whereas digital has an even grid of fixed position 
electronic light sensitive elements. The irony is, of course that the film 
process then becomes immediately digital, since a light effected grain is on 
or off, whereas the digital sensor is analogue at this point and can resolve 
12 to 14 bits of dynamic range (it requires over 4000 grains of silver to 
produce the same depth as 1 pixel) which is amplified, if required, to be 
equivalent to a higher sensitivity (iso) adding noise, then converted into 
digital in a A/D convertor.
In prints it looks like the dots from an inkjet are random, but I imagine 
they aren't. The silver grains -are- random.
But they are both floating dots.
Or have I missed something?


----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Man 
 I have seen many good inkjet print too, but silver is
different from floating dots.