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

2003-05-28 by Anthony Atkielski

Austin writes:

> No, actually, you haven't...  I know you believe
> you have, but you're missing the point.

Explain to me why this statement would be true when you utter it, but not
true when I utter it.

> Name them, please ...

I already have.  Spectral yellow is rendered identically to a certain
combination of spectral red and green.

> ... and then after you do, show that this is significant.

If it were not significant, no color display or printing system that exists
today would work.

> You are aware that B&W film gives the same tonality
> for many different colors?

Yes.  And it also gives different tones for many different color as well.
And often the response of the film is essentially random across the
spectrum.

> Again, show that that is significant.

I have, probably at least a dozen times by now.  If you didn't understand it
the first eleven times, why would you understand it now?

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