Digital BW, The Print

Austin Franklin wrote:

>>>You missed the point...PS is not REQUIRED for digital pictures, you can
>>>simply hook your camera up to a printer and print the image, with out the
>>>need for any image manipulation software intervention.
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>>Of course..
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>>> Of course, there is
>>>firmware in the camera and printere etc., but that's not the same.
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>>My point exactly.. the firmware mediates..
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>The ORIGINAL comment was that PS (or any manipulation program) HAD to be
>used, and it does not.  The firmware does not do the same manipulations that
>a user can do in PS.  All the firmware MAY do is apply a LUT (Loot Up Table)
>to the data to simply match the calibration between the camera and the
>printer.  That is NOT image manipulation of the sense that has been being
>discussed.
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It may well be...

Many  digicams apply an arbitrary unsharp mask.. or arbitrarily correct 
the whitepoint..

At the print end, drivers do not print pixel for pixel.. more accurately 
dot per pixel..  Remember there is stochastic dithering involved in many 
if not the vast majority of printers..  PLUS, color spaces and models 
differ....  Need I add that one is representing a transmissive model 
(the CCD captures in that mode) with a reflective model (the print)..?

Keith
 
 



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