Originally posted by swanlefitte I hear that often and digital grain is bad.
How about a film grain filter over digital grain?
For my eye at least, it is looking very different. This may be due to being used to viewing film in the past vs digital being the new kid on the block. On digital, "grain" is noise and this (high ISO noise) usually looks like colors blocks jumbled around. Kinda Tetris throw-up (sorry).
I think film grain is more pleasing. But why? On BW, you have sorta "grey scale tonality". On color film, you don't have these aberrant color blocks lying around. The different colors grains are more uniformly distributed, they don't cluster together.
I have to say, however, that I think Pentax is doing a great job regarding high ISO. Sometimes I have shots around 8000 ISO and they look clean (unprocessed, w/o pixel peeping). On film, the picture may already degrade.
How should a film grain filter over digital grain work? Some software offer this IIRC, but apart from some hipster aesthetics, I would always go for as few grain / noise as possible, regardless if film or digital.