Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:37 AM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Thoughts about Imaging


> > > 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?
>
Austin,

I have never thought of it as a "property" but as a sometimes useful
mathematical relationship that compares and contrasts actual physical
properties. Perhaps this is part of our misunderstanding.

Martin