----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist"
Subject: Re: PP: Digital Grain
People will still see what they want to see.
However, I'm going to conduct a little experiment. My current portfolio consists of about 48 prints. Four are 11 x 14 silver prints, the rest are color prints of approximately 11 x 17. Thirty of so are digital. Fourteen are from medium format scans. They were all printed on the Epson 2200. I'm going to pull aside three or four professional art directors in the ad agency where I'm currently working, along with an art buyer or two. These are people who evaluate professional photography every day and are considered experts. Let's see how many can pick out the film based prints from the digital without using a loupe. I'm willing to bet that the hit ratio will be very low indeed.
Essentially, you are going to show a bunch of digital prints and ask which one is not a digital print?
Hardly a fair question.
Or are you merely going to see if they can pick out the four 11x14 silver prints from the rest.
William Robb
