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even a 35mm picture of abe lincoln cannot give you what he really looked like...but it is so close...because it simply catches the 'light' from around him...noise n all. a digi. snap would be oh-so-clean...but it takes into account things that the eye does not see. to many it 'cleans up' the image'


Except the fact that there were no 35mm cameras. Good digital cameras don't record in compressed format, they merely stream the pixel data to the storage medium for later manipulation, often in 36-48 bit depth per pixel. There are of course issues, and the never ending quest for packing data tighter and tighter is seemingly limitless, but loss due to compression isn't a requirement of digital storage.
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Charlie