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

[Robert Meier]

--- "Robert E. Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "...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

First it's 144MBITS not Mbytes. 144Mbits=18Mbytes (actually accoring to
my first assumption of 12bits channel it's 27Mbytes). Second, as I have
mentioned the cameras (S1, D1x) does NOT capture all three channels for
all pixels. Only one channel per pixel. The other 2 channels (2/3 of
the total output data) is interpolated either by the camera or software
on the computer (in case of raw images).

Robert

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