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Re: An uniformed hypothesis

Well, digital audio recording is a purer representation than a digital photograph, so the comparisons may not be that easy to do.

A digital recording made on pretty much any A/D system (excepting perhaps DSD) pretty much tries to encode what comes in through the mikes and board. The manipulation of the waveform is minor. Any smoothing filters etc. are very basic and color the sound much less than what is happening in a digital photo. The success of digital to capture the fidelity of the original signal is of course still up for debate.

However, digital cameras all use complex algorythms and filters to capture an image. No two cameras record similar looking images. All have a built in sharpening filter, a edge smoothing filter, a color enhancer, contrast levels etc. So the sharpening effect you are likely seeing in a digital camera is likely filters applied in the camera itself. Like TVs, each brand of camera adjusts these to get their look, which has nothing to do fidelity.


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