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RE: [Digital BW] Is dynamic range more important than densityrange?

2002-03-30 by Austin Franklin

> I mean I hear what you are saying, that sometimes it will be near
> enough to
> zero that your DyR will be ABOUT the same as your DnR, but that
> doesn't make
> that measure irrelevant, it simply allows one to decide whether it is
> relevant or not.

Whether noise is near 0 or not, density range and dynamic range are never
the same, simply because their units of measurement are entirely different.
Dynamic range is in dB, and density range is in density units.  They also
describe different properties.  Just because they both are stated in log,
doesn't make them the same.

A gallon of water isn't the same as an orange, though they are both stated
in integer units.

Austin

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