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[OM] Re: Velvia 50 returns

Subject: [OM] Re: Velvia 50 returns
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:36:32 -0800
AG Schnozz wrote:
>> Oh, I didn't mean *digital/pseudo* B&W.  I meant, *real* B&W,
>> the kind
>> that comes from film developed and printed in a darkroom.
>>     
>
> Oh, the kind where "grain" isn't a defect?
>   
I'm of the opinion that grain is a defect, and always has been, in the 
sense that it is an artifact of the image capture process that is not a 
part of the subject. You rail about digital artifacts in DSLR images, 
but accept artifacts in film

That is perfectly natural. We have been looking at grain for our whole 
lives and tend to see it as part of the image. And like selective 
focus/blurring, petroleum jelly smeared on filters, cross processing and 
other intentional artifacts, grain may well add to the artistic quality 
of the resultant image.

It is nonetheless, a defect in the image creation system in that it 
arbitrarily alters the image projected by the lens onto the film in ways 
that have nothing inherent to do with the subject. Similarly, the lens 
introduces artifacts, aberrations, as we commonly call them, that are 
inherent in the lens, not in the subject.

Moose on his high horse.

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