Kodiak Qc
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The PIXEL is a widely used term. I used it like everyone, since there was
a need to define the measure of what is a good enough density to print
in the fast evolving applied technologies.
I got to learn about the PIXEL when I started to have my photos scanned
for printing… in what media, what medium and what size.
Then, the PIXEL was NOT known in the darkroom —where pictures were
not really printed but enlarged and impressed onto "photo-sensitive bases"
called emulsions like films were. BUT it was familiar to all craftsmen in the
printing industry and peripheral activities as the smallest desirable part of
an image to be printed… for magazines, newspapers etc.
Photography had nothing to do with it, wanted nothing to do with it, And this
new idea, concept, was just digging deeper the gap between the techniques
and artistry of both the graphic arts and photography.
So, the PIXEL — from pictures elements to picts elements to pictsel to pixel —
was accepted and used and defined as the smallest element of a picture in
the printing industry… that was not too slowly shifting to digital workflow with
the growing numbers of computers in the prepress rooms.
THE POINT IS that photography still has nothing to do with PIXEL… that is
until, from a converter, data will be published — read converted to an image
of any format that is THEN an image defined by PIXEL and DENSITY.
Before that publishing, conversion, there are two other states.
Prior to capture, the sensel or sencel— read sensor cell — is all that matters.
Along with the exposure triangle, it is an important element to consider — like
lenses, filters etc — and an integral part of the shooting parameters prior to SR.
Post SR & Post-Production
Here, the recorded information is not an image, so it is not to be defined by PIXEL
but by Bytes — MB eventually — because it is only data and MB refers to the
total amount of recorded data in a given RAW data file.
In post, one cannot read and appreciate that data but will be presented a visual,
or converted, version of the said data that will reflect it and all the tweaks.
Prior to SR: sencel or sensel
In Post: Bytes
In prepress: pixel
HNY!
The PIXEL is a widely used term. I used it like everyone, since there was
a need to define the measure of what is a good enough density to print
in the fast evolving applied technologies.
I got to learn about the PIXEL when I started to have my photos scanned
for printing… in what media, what medium and what size.
Then, the PIXEL was NOT known in the darkroom —where pictures were
not really printed but enlarged and impressed onto "photo-sensitive bases"
called emulsions like films were. BUT it was familiar to all craftsmen in the
printing industry and peripheral activities as the smallest desirable part of
an image to be printed… for magazines, newspapers etc.
Photography had nothing to do with it, wanted nothing to do with it, And this
new idea, concept, was just digging deeper the gap between the techniques
and artistry of both the graphic arts and photography.
So, the PIXEL — from pictures elements to picts elements to pictsel to pixel —
was accepted and used and defined as the smallest element of a picture in
the printing industry… that was not too slowly shifting to digital workflow with
the growing numbers of computers in the prepress rooms.
THE POINT IS that photography still has nothing to do with PIXEL… that is
until, from a converter, data will be published — read converted to an image
of any format that is THEN an image defined by PIXEL and DENSITY.
Before that publishing, conversion, there are two other states.
Prior to capture, the sensel or sencel— read sensor cell — is all that matters.
Along with the exposure triangle, it is an important element to consider — like
lenses, filters etc — and an integral part of the shooting parameters prior to SR.
Post SR & Post-Production
Here, the recorded information is not an image, so it is not to be defined by PIXEL
but by Bytes — MB eventually — because it is only data and MB refers to the
total amount of recorded data in a given RAW data file.
In post, one cannot read and appreciate that data but will be presented a visual,
or converted, version of the said data that will reflect it and all the tweaks.
Prior to SR: sencel or sensel
In Post: Bytes
In prepress: pixel
HNY!
