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

2003-05-28 by Anthony Atkielski

Austin writes:

> Yeah, they will be very different in amplitude,
> and it also depends on how they are aimed ...

They are omnidirectional; they cannot be aimed.

> I don't believe it can be done, since there are
> complex frequencies involved...which is an entirely
> different case from converting RGB color data
> into B&W data.

It's the same thing.  But as I said, I wasn't optimistic that yet another
analogy would work where its predecessors had not.

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