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Re: [Digital BW] Is there a difference?

2002-10-16 by Tony Terlecki

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:25:14PM -0400, Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> > 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!
> 

Who's arguing otherwise?

-- 
Tony Terlecki
ajt@...

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