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RE: [Digital BW] Digital, film, scanning comparisons

2003-05-28 by Austin Franklin

Anthony,

> You can't get a Tri-X look from a digital RGB sensor,
> and you can't
> get a Velvia look from a Provia scan, and so on.

Those are two entirely different problems.  One is spectrally sensitive, and
the other is simply intensity sensitive, with no spectral content.

From what I can tell from the Tri-X film response curve, it responds
equally, until falloff, to the number of photons that hit it, and this
response is spectrally independent.  Is that not the case?

Austin

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