[filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range

["Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>]

Dickbo,

I'm hardly a Reverend.  There's no need for juvenile name calling, which you
tend to turn to when someone tells you, you are wrong, and you can't come up
with a substantive argument in return.  At least I'm adult enough to keep
the discussion technical.

Suffice to say, I know what I know, and I know what I don't, and I know what
I know is right, in this case....and I know what you said below is wrong.

And...that wouldn't be the first time ;-)

Austin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of dickbo
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:56 AM
> To: darkroom@ix.netcom.com
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Density vs Dynamic range
>
>
> Rev Austin I say to you that you are a prat and that is the end of it all.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <dickbo@btopenworld.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:55 PM
> Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Density vs Dynamic range
>
>
> > 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.
>
> That's bad advice IMO.  Dynamic range is equally, if not more
> important than
> density range.
>
> > What really matters, if you are after a very wide original
> > density range,
>
> Yes, like lithography film...which has no tonality, simply a wide density
> range.  Do you shoot with that?  If tonality is important to you, then
> dynamic range is important to you.
>
> Austin

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