Re: That Worn-Out, Old "Film vs. Digital" Debate

"Philip Homburg" <
> For fine grained film, dye cloud sizes can be in the order of
micrometers.
> Are you saying that you are printing to film at 25000 ppi?
>
> If not, there is a good chance that the difference will be visible
> under a microscope.

The last time I checked, there were no camera lenses that resolve 25000
ppi. 
We don't image dye clouds, but at up to a true 4096 pixels per inch or 160

lines per millimeter written by a point light source, I've never been able

to tell the difference under the best 10x loupe between an original and an

LVT and neither have any of my customers. Actually, we can't tell at less 
than half that resolution. We've enlarged these films up to murals as
well. 
To be honest, I've never used a microscope, and there might be some 
artifacting there to give it away, but if you had no original to compare
it 
to, what would you look for to tell you that it wasn't original camera
film 
if original view camera lenses aren't any sharper than what this process
can 
yield?