[filmscanners] RE: Repeated "Tonal correction", is it god?

["michael shaffer" <michael@shaffer.net>]

LAURIE writes ...

> To put words in shAF's mouth (hope you don't mind shAF), the use of a
> greater bit depth - 16 bits/channel rather than 8 bits/per
> channel - allows
> one to capture a much more expansive tonal range rather than the more
> compressed range of an 8 bit per channel capture.  This means you
> will have
> more tonal detail and subtlties available within the range ...

  That didn't come out of my mouth ...<g>... and I do not agree.  More tonal
detail and subtlties, yes ... but if the scanner is capable of highbit
scanning, and you ask for delivery of 8bit instead of highbits, the same
tonal range is delivered.  Consider PS converting a highbit file to 8bits
... does the tonal range change because to converted?  It's the same thing.

cheerios ... shAf  :o)
Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland
www.micro-investigations.com (in progress)


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