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Re: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography
----- Original Message -----
From: Austin Franklin <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial
photography
>
> > "...The digital camera gives you only 6M*8bit/channel=6Mbytes..."
> > 6Mpixels *8bits/channel *3channels = 144Mbytes. This assumes 3
bytes/pixel
> > it may be higher if bit deepth per channel is greater than 8.
> > Bob Wright
>
> Er, no. That would be 144M BITS, not bytes, which is 24M Bytes...
>
Mea coupa! But still greater than 6 Mbytes.
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