[filmscanners] Re: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-10 Thread dickbo
You could help yourself by forgetting all about dynamic range, which is a term pertinent to thos who manufacture and design CCD type devices. If you are a photographer all that should concern you is density range, because that is the range that carries visual information from the original scene.

[filmscanners] FW: Scene brightness and CCDs

2002-06-10 Thread Todd Flashner
Oops, forgot the link, FWIW... http://www.digitalcamera.jp/report/S2Pro-020602/index.htm -- From: Todd Flashner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 04:25:08 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scene brightness and CCDs The number of stops of brightness that film can hold

[filmscanners] Re: Re:Polaroid sprintscan 4000 problems

2002-06-10 Thread Arthur Entlich
Regarding your inability to get 5.5 to work. Do you have Silverfast on your system? Some people have been reporting that the system used to assure you have a valid scanner to authorize your ability to use Silverfast is causing some conflicts with allowing upgrading Insight or even causing the

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-10 Thread Austin Franklin
It's (my initial statement you disagree with) hardly an over-simplification, in fact, it is about as complete and accurate as you can get. It is a plain and simple fact that a dynamic range of 5000:1 requires 13 bits to represent that full dynamic range. Again, 1 is the first

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-10 Thread Austin Franklin
You could help yourself by forgetting all about dynamic range, which is a term pertinent to thos who manufacture and design CCD type devices. If you are a photographer all that should concern you is density range, because that is the range that carries visual information from the original

[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-10 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi Laurie, Dynamic range is, in our case, (dMax - dMin) / noise. I guess I tend to want to stay away from that definition in part because I am not really able to visualize it very well http://www.darkroom.com/Images/DynamicRange01.jpg Alas, you are beginning to lose me because of my

[filmscanners] Re: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-10 Thread
On 6/10/02 6:30 AM, Julian Vrieslander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The signal could have been anything between (x + 0.0005) and (x + 0.0005). Woops. This is what I tried to type: The signal could have been anything between (x - 0.0005) and (x + 0.0005). I knew what you meant :-)

[filmscanners] Re: Density vs Dynamic range

2002-06-10 Thread
Dynamic range is, in our case, (dMax - dMin) / noise. Density range is simply dMax - dMin. Dynamic range is the number of discernable values within a density range (in our case). Density range is simply the max density value you can get minus the minimum density value you can get. This is

[filmscanners] RE: Archiving and when to sharpen(was:Color spaces for differentpurposes)

2002-06-10 Thread Laurie Solomon
Since JPEG is lossless and TIFF is not, this is to be expected. Don't you have this reversed? My understanding is that JPEG is lossy while TIFF with LZW is lossless. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Monday, June