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Subject: [OM] Re: Velvia 50 returns
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:50:56 -0500
Here, here!  Right on!

(or, I guess, that's probably why we own 5D's)

Chuck Norcutt

Moose wrote:

> 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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