Digital BW, The Print

That's a pro SLR... not a consumer/prosumer grade product.

I personally favour grain in mono work; I like the texture, look and
feel it adds to the image. I frequently find myself artificially adding
grain/noise to the image in Photoshop  - I gues I'm a grain addict (it
depends on the image of course)... Despite being this way; I just can't
bear the too orderly, patterned, non natural look of the noise in most
digital cameras (inspect the sky in most images and you'll understand
what I mean). This was the main reason that lead me to sell my 3Mp
digital camera (Casio QV3000) just a couple of months later (this was 2
years ago)...

Regards,
Loris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Olson [mailto:jerryolson@...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:39 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Hi I have a few questions
> 
> 
> Lois, I have the Canon D60, with a CMOS chip.  Absolutely no 
> grain, no 
> noise, until you get above ISO 400.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> 
> Loris Medici wrote:
> > Hi Jerry,
> > 
> > Digital cameras have no grain but a grain-like "CCD noise" 
> which looks 
> > pretty ugly when combined with Bayer interpolation 
> artifacts (we are 
> > speaking about consumer/prosumer level cameras here). For detailed 
> > information you may read the "in depth reviews" and 
> "learn/glossary" 
> > sections of the wonderful Digital Photography Review
> > (http://www.dpreview.com) site - every review has a section 
> dedicated 
> > to noise evaluation/comparison and hot/stuck pixels.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Loris.