Digital BW, The Print

Austin,

The crux of the debate is do the tonal issues that you lose appear visibly in the finished product - the print or the web?  Using your analogy, can you tell the difference between a tray holding 5000 apples and a shallower tray holding 2500 apples just by looking at the tray?  Will the colors and tones appear different to the viewer, or can you only determine the difference scientifically - by counting them?

Anyway, the 8-bit v. 16-bit newsgroup thread I had referred to earlier at
http://www.ledet.com/margulis/ACT_postings/ACT-8-bit-16-bit.html
upon a re-reading only minimally touched on this issue and was a 1999 thread.

The actual challenge was apparently set forth in one of Dan's Newsletters which I don't have (probably issued before I joined the List and his Newsletter mailing list) but I do have it restated by Dan in a newsgroup message which I am forwarding directly to you.

There was also a thread or two in 2001 containing a very interesting debate on the issue which I have saved to .txt and am also forwarding directly.

If anyone else on the list wants either the challenge or both, please let me know offlist at
mlidaka@...

Maris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:42 PM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] 16-bit Scanning: Why?


| Maris,
| 
| > Are you on Dan's Color Theory List?  If not, I will try to find
| > the challenge (it was according to Dan mis-paraphrased at some
| > point so I want to find it in accurate form) and will send it off-list.
| 
| I am not on the list...please do send it to me.
| 
| > As to the argument that you lose tonal values, his response is
| > that theoretically you do but in the real world the result is
| > identical.  I am not an expert so I will not take sides one way
| > or the other.
| 
| The fact that you lose tonal values isn't theoretical, it's just a plain old
| fact...kind of like 1 apple + 1 apple = 2 apples.  It's a simple experiment
| you can try your self ;-)
| 
| Regards,
| 
| Austin
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