> -----Original Message----- > From: David A. Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Comparing digital to film > > > William Robb wrote: > > > One of the things I keep reading WRT how good digital capture is relates > > to the lack of grain in the digital capture. I do have a problem > > understanding this. It seems to me that in order to have a "grain" free > > image, the capture would have to be a continuous tone device. > > This brings up a point which I've been wondering about lately. > > A digital camera pixel is continuous tone. It measures the _intensity_ > of the light that falls on it.
not quite, with 8 bit output it resolves 256 shades of grey per color and 64K shades with 16 bit output. JCO
