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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
The funny thing is film was, in a sense, more digital than an electronic sensor. The reason is a silver halide particle was always either exposed and developed or not. It never had any shaded of grey. It was black or it was simply not there after being removed in processing while every sensor site or pixel can display 256 discrete values in 8 bit.
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I never though of it that way. Of course, in a more overriding sense, digital IS more digital because those 8 bits always reproduce the exact same state, in the exact same position, while silver halide particles are never QUITE the same shape or size, or in QUITE the same place twice.
ApK