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Hello

I am totally puzzled by your concept of rendered and unrendered scenes. How can a sensor that counts photons know if the photons are from reflected light or transmitted light? Is a object on my flatbed, rendered or not in comparison to a photograph on the flatbed?

I can photograph a scene or photograph a picture of that scene,how would the camera know, what was rendered or unrendered.

All it can do is count the photons that impinge on the sensor and express those counts as numbers in the digital domain.

Also I know that in a ideal world the analogue data would have inverse gamma applied, analogue TV works like that.

In our digital age most all desktop scanners do NOT apply inverse gamma in the analogue domain. It is done in the digital domain at 12, 14 or 16 bit resolution. I can set my Nikon to scan with no inverse gamma( linear) into Photoshop. Most people do not trust the software that comes with their scanners and prefer to use Photoshop. As far as I know you do the same. It is of course more problematic at 8 bit.

I really have to say that I cannot accept anything that you have said in this regard.

Mike Engles