RE: filmscanners: Sprintscan 120 now on B+H web site ...

[Austin Franklin]

> 3.9 just means 13 bits of dynamic range.

Out of curiosity, how do you come up with this (especially the word
'means')?

> They're using a 14-bit A/D
> converter, which most vendors convert to a dynamic range of 4.2.
> I suspect Polaroid is just being conservative.

A 14 bit converter only has 13 bits of accuracy.  The LSB of a converter is
always uncertain.  There is also more than the converter that determines the
dynamic range of the system.