"LEICA@xxxxxxx wrote:
I guess I'm a hopeless carryover from film days but I'd rather use the
word 'grain' instead of 'noise'. Actually this digital 'noise' makes no
sound. Bob M"
I'd almost agree, except that grain directly refers to specific silver
clumps formed during the processing of film, and that could easily lead
to confusion. If I said "the grain in my images", I think many people
would automatically assume I'd used film.
The problem of randomly generated artefacts in electronics is called
noise, I think, and I suppose that is why electronically generated
artefacts in photography have been called "noise". Perhaps an
alternative term should have been invented.
How about DIPROAS? (Digitally produced artefacts)
Howard*
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