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Subject: [OM] Re: Velvia 50 returns
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:42:44 -0800
Stay in that saddle.


Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA




On Nov 15, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Moose wrote:

> 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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