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

["Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>]

Hi Michael,

>   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.

You can get the exact same tonal RANGE, yes, it was the detail within that
tonal range that is obviously reduced when converting to 8 bits.  Now,
whether you can actually make use of that extra resolution if another issue.

Regards,

Austin

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