Digital BW, The Print

> From: Anthony G. Atkielski [mailto:anthony@...]
>
> Digital images usually do have a distinctive look, especially when
> examined closely.  The lack of grain is usually noticed first.  The
> "creamy" colors are noticed next.  The two features of the images are
> related, as part of the lack of grain comes from the fact that color
> resolution in digital is very poor, and color pixels are interpolated.
> In other words, you're unlikely to see pixel-to-pixel noise in the blue
> channel of a digicam image simply because the actual blue pixels are
> separated by three other pixels, so the intervening blue pixels are
> interpolated, which always smoothes out any disparities.  So you get
> less grain, less color resolution, and a creamy appearance to the image.
> Some people like it, some don't.  It looks nice from a distance.
>
> A near-total lack of "grain" and a creamy, somewhat pastel
> appearance to colors are typical of digital images.  The lack of grain
> is mostly due to low noise, but is also due to the poor color
> resolution, as stated above.  The creamy pastels are entirely due to
> poor color resolution.

I'm like to know more precisely what you mean by "color resolution" and
"creamy pastels". The former sounds like something that could have a formal
definition, but the latter sounds like something subjective that doesn't
describe anything I've seen.

--

Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...