It's hard to get away from analogue sytems producing grain of random shapes and sizes and digital systems producing regular pixels. Does it follow that the only genuine grain comes from film negative / wet printing and can only be influenced by choice of chemicals, not 'added' later?
Once the digital resolution becomes greater than that of the viewing process I suspect the whole debate becomes moot, with personal preference and opinion carrying more weight than technical arguement.
@MrE
It's hard to get away from analogue sytems producing grain of random shapes and sizes and digital systems producing regular pixels. Does it follow that the only genuine grain comes from film negative / wet printing and can only be influenced by choice of chemicals, not 'added' later?
Once the digital resolution becomes greater than that of the viewing process I suspect the whole debate becomes moot, with personal preference and opinion carrying more weight than technical arguement.