RE: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

[Austin Franklin]

> > "...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...

Sorry, typo...make that 18M Bytes...