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RE: [Digital BW] Is there a difference?

2002-10-16 by Austin Franklin

> Tony,
>
> > 12 stops - let's see that is a relative dmax of about 3.6.
> Seeing as most
> > people go to all sorts of lengths to even reach a 2.0 relative
> dmax on an
> > inkjet print I'd say you are way off!!!
>
> No, what I said is right on.  You are confusing scene latitude with film
> density range.  The two are NOT the same.

And...the density range that the printer outputs, that too, is entirely
decoupled from the original scene latitude, and from the film density range
as well!

Austin

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