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Can "you" distinguish "digital B&W" and film?


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I acknowledge that "this" posting is not a scientific investigation.

 

I will further stipulate that I think any result should not be taken too seriously.

 

[i don't want a fight.]

 

Full disclose: I own both Leicas and Nikons (digital & film) and a couple of other brandnames, too.

 

I will, of course, reveal the answer regardless of participation.

 

Any other "examples" are encouraged!

 

So, is the image B&W film or digital? What's your best guess?

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As far as I can tell the histogram looks well, all 256 values of grey scale are present. This is a lot but film should hold more than these (but p.net probably doesn't allow their presentation), so I can't tell what the source of these pixels might be. The black spot looks a bit like speck on a sensor. I don't know what the larger dot might be. Did it occur during film drying? - I'm confused. As long as 8 bit publishing is concerned the source of BW probably doesn't matter. I wish there were good BW digicams as cheap as color versions.
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Johnnycake,

 

The problem, as others have noted, is the output format which is digital, no matter the origin of the capture.

 

Have you made a b&w optical print from a digital capture? I've not heard of anyone doing that via, say, a 35mm film recorder.

 

 

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Don E

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Al Kaplan - Miami, FL , oct 18, 2006; 01:41 p.m.

Neither! It's a sheet of fixed out and washed photo paper, with the image added by hand

stippling India ink with a 6/0 spotting brush for a period of slightly over four hours...

 

Al...

 

Very, very creative... but wrong!

 

WADR, breathe deeply...

 

(smile)

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Ellis Vener , oct 18, 2006; 01:47 p.m.

Let's see what file info in Photoshop CS2 says...

 

BUSTED!

 

The image is Nikon digital and it was manipulated in PS/CS2.

 

The world did OK.

 

So, what to think: analog photography doesn't want to emulate digital BUT.... digital

wants to achieve analog.

 

Go figure.

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