Digital BW, The Print

on 4/5/02 11:37 AM, Austin Franklin wrote:

>>> Second, "Real World Scanning
>>> and Halftones"
>>> by Blatner, etc.
>> 
>> And...the description of dynamic range in that book completely agrees with
>> my stated definition:
>> 
>> "dynamic range describes the actual limits of how many tones the
>> scanner can
>> really differentiate from light to dark".
> 
> Roy, et al,
> 
> How come a property, such as dynamic range, as cited here, applies in this
> "meaning"/"understanding" in digital imaging, and not in analog imaging?

Because noise becomes much less of a limiting factor than chemical and
optical phenomena?

Todd