Talk:Continuous tone
Pixels don't vary in infinite steps, although since most displays have more bit-depth than the human eye can perceive it will appear so. Matthias Alexander Jude Shapiro (talk) 18:54, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
"The most common continuous tone images are digital photographs" excludes "An example of a continuous-tone device is a CRT computer screen".. I cant get a point at all! What does term `continuous` can exactly mean? Does it mean `discrete` (finite variations)? Does it mean `analog` (infinite variations)? Someone please call inquisition service ;-) Xakepp35 (talk) 02:27, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
This article is confusing. The first sentence describes halftone images as those containing only one color for monochromatic prints, but further down, says that B&W photographic film, a halftone medium, consists of two colors (not one). There is also no mention of photographic film negatives, whether B&W or color. Are the film negatives also halftone for B&W negatives, or combinations of 2 or 3 separate color halftones for color negatives? What about motion picture film? My understanding is that color motion picture film uses a combination of 2 or 3 colors, either additive or subtractive, as shown here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_film_systems, so is color motion picture film continuous tone for the additive methods, and halftone for the subtractive methods? Or is any type of film, whether still image or motion picture, whether B&W or color, and whether undeveloped or developed (i.e., negatives or prints), always based on halftones, no exceptions? N3362 (talk) 07:47, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm not an expert on continuous tone images, but the other definitions I have found out there appear to directly contradict one of the key assertions of this post, which is that a regular photograph is a half-tone. The photograph is the very thing used as an example of a continuous-tone image on several other sites, the explanation being that the color on such a photograph is a continuously varying shade of a single color, e.g. for the black and white photo, black. I will not cite this page, and hope someone knowledgeable will fix it. Capouch (talk) 00:14, 30 November 2019 (UTC)