Author's Reply.to Comments on: Light Scattering in Photographic Materials for Holography.
The calculations of Ref. 1 were never intended to show the magnitude of the scattered flux, only the functional form of the relative scattered flux. The overlapping circular grain model was chosen for these calculations, because the simple checkerboard model of a photographic emulsion cannot be an accurate modei for predicting light scattering. No matter how the parameters are juggled, the checkerboard model will always predict a maximum in the scattering at an amplitude trahsmittance of 0.5, whereas the measured peak occurs at an amplitude transmittance of 0.6.