Digital BW, The Print

Peter, I'm with you - this whole debate by Anthony is a troll. Arguing my
analogy quickly descends into arguing whether the analogy is valid. Until
Anthony buys a scanner and an inkjet printer, all this is crazy!

Julian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Nelson" <peter@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Digital, film, Spectral Sensitivity


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony
> Atkielski" <anthony@a...> wrote:
> > I'll try again:
> >
> > You have a machine that collects money.  You run it in your house
> and it
> > manages to find $10.49.  You also have a piggy bank that can accept
> only
> > quarters.  Based on this total from your machine, how many quarters
> do you
> > have for your piggy bank?  See the problem?
>
> Bad analogy.    Because the currency is discreet quanta (it's 25 or 5
> or 10 - there's no 7.25 cent piece) but wavelenthgs are continuous,
> and furthermore RGB sensors (and color film dyes) OVERLAP in their
> sensitivity.
>
> Science made a huge leap forward when it escaped from Aristotelian
> word-logic and went to an EXPERIMENTAL paradigm.   You could do the
> same.
>
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