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Re: CM rant
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Re: CM rant


  • Subject: Re: CM rant
  • From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:34:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Jim Mowreader wrote:

>Keith Cooper sends:
>> The '16 bit challenge' does look to be Dan's equivalent of the 'Find the
>> Lady' card trick ;-)
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_the_lady>
>
>Okay, let's get this straight: Dan takes a file containing 64k steps between
>0% density and 100% density, throws away all but 256 of those steps,
>then jumps up and says "look! There's no difference at all between 8-bit
>and 16-bit files!"

Basically...yes! And his adoring fans clap enthusiastically at the feat.

>Gee...maybe I should go out and "prove" a 72dpi file will print
>just as cleanly as a 300dpi one...but if you send your test file to
>me to prove I'm wrong, I reserve the right to downsample it to
>72dpi before I print it.

Hey, sounds good to Dan, I'm sure.

>I knew Dan had a high opinion of himself, but this is ridiculous.

No, this is Dan. :-)

Marco Ugolini
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