It really depends on if you are talking color or B&W. For B&W, there is no question, you need to use 16 bits for doing all but a minimum tonal curve adjustment, but for color, for most applications you won't see any difference using 8 bit data or 16 bit data.
Austin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: 8 bit versus 16 > > > Yup, I'm in "category 1" too. If you're going to work on the > image, 16-bit makes a huge > difference--many operations, especially big curve or gamma > adjustments, throw away bits. > The goal is to still have 8 bits of information left when you're > done. Starting at 8 bits > that's pretty tough. But if you're not going to "work" the image, > if you're going to make > all your adjustments in the scanning program, then yes, 8 bits is plenty. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with > 'unsubscribe filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the > message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
