As a result of the continuing and escalating acrimony between Austin and
myself, and his incessant nitpicking of my postings, I do not intend to
respond directly either publicly or privately to his postings in the
future. I bring this to the attention of the other members so that you
understand
Further, the issues he has brought up to question below were asides and
tangential to the main points I was making in my post which were
concerning the discussion comparing color dye clouds and capture of
images digitally, not black and white developing,
I DID talk about color (see below),
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Subject: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Pixels
per inch vs DPI
Austin,
Most of what you are saying in this latest missive was brought up
before and rejected by Rob. It was at that
point that I gave up. But, kudos to you for your tenacity and
deep knowledge
Dye clouds are a double edged sword.
On the one hand, due to the random positioning and their transparent
nature, they can make for a very small apparent resolution because they
can overlap in all sorts of random patterns making areas much smaller
than a fixed array of pixels which would read
, 2001 11:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Pixels
per inch vs DPI
Austin,
Most of what you are saying in this latest missive was brought up
before and rejected by Rob. It was at that
point that I gave up. But, kudos to you
Austin Franklin wrote:
Very simply, grain, or dye clouds are predetermined in their location
and shape and are not relocated by picture content.
What about development?
I could just answer this with an Austinism and say what about it?,
but I'll afford you a little more respect
Austin wrote:
That's the point, it isn't an argument! It's like asking
why the number 9 is larger than the number 4. It's just
the way it is. It's just a fact of simple physics that a
pixel does not contain near the same amount of information
as a dye cloud.
I suspected I should
Austin,
Most of what you are saying in this latest missive was brought up before and rejected
by Rob. It was at that
point that I gave up. But, kudos to you for your tenacity and deep knowledge on this
subject. I feel like
I've been vindicated, and by someone with far more skill than I.
