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Film grain or granularity is the random optical texture of processed photographic film due to the presence of small grains of a metallic silver developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
   Granularity is a numerical quantification of film grain, equal to the root-mean-square (rms) fluctuations in optical density, measured with a microdensitometer with a 0.048 mm (48-micrometre) diameter circular aperture, on a film area that has been exposed and normally developed to a mean density of 1.0 (that is, it transmits 10% of light incident on it). Granularity is often quoted "times 1000", so that a film with granularity 10 means an rms density fluctuation of 0.010 in the standard aperture area.
   When the grains are small, the standard aperture area measures an average of many grains, so the granularity is small. When the grains are large, fewer are averaged in the standard area, so there's a larger random fluctuation, and a higher granularity number.
   The standard 0.048 mm aperture size derives from a drill bit used by an employee of Kodak.
Film grain is often considered an artistic effect, and can be found in some digital photo manipulation software such as Photoshop as something that can be added to an image after it's taken.
   In digital photography, image noise sometimes appears as a "grain-like" effect.

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