[filmscanners] Re: Acer Scanwit 2720S color depth

["Petru Lauric" <petru.lauric@rcn.com>]

Titus Tucan wrote:

>My Scanwit 2720S is rated a 12 bit per channel device (12x3=36bit) right?
>The software that comes with Miraphoto has three options for color
>1.    High speed (I don't know what that represents)
>2.    24 bit color
>3.    48 bit color
>
>Photoshop and Vuescan can have only 8 bit or 16 bit colors as well
>
>I'm confused, and don't understand why the software provides just 24 and 48
>bit if the scanner is 12 bit (36 bit total)
>
For technical reasons the scanner sends the 12 bits per channel in
blocks of 16 bits.

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