Comments on: A Question About Noise and Prints http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2010/03/03/a-question-about-noise-and-prints Daily photographs, news, observations, and ideas about photography Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:48:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: G Dan Mitchell http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2010/03/03/a-question-about-noise-and-prints/comment-page-1#comment-17315 G Dan Mitchell Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:24:55 +0000 http://www.gdanmitchell.com/?p=6255#comment-17315 Charles, thanks for the point about paper - it certainly is true that it will be less visible, and perhaps less objectionable if you do see it on matte papers. Like you, I think that the chroma ("color") noise is more problematic than luminance (contrast or brightness) noise. The latter may suggest something more like film grain in some cases. Dave, I don't have any experience with the 7D, so thanks for sharing yours. Dan Charles, thanks for the point about paper – it certainly is true that it will be less visible, and perhaps less objectionable if you do see it on matte papers. Like you, I think that the chroma (“color”) noise is more problematic than luminance (contrast or brightness) noise. The latter may suggest something more like film grain in some cases.

Dave, I don’t have any experience with the 7D, so thanks for sharing yours.

Dan

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