Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >When you get more bits in a scanner, it's unlikely that you get more latitude though. The maximum number is always the machine code for maximum brightness and 0 is off - no light emitted from your screen for that color. What you should get is more resolution in the brightness scale.
Regards, Bob....< you get more latitude if the maximum brightness of the light is higher at the maximum value and zero really is very low and noisefree. suppose the maximum was 320 lux instead of 300. (numbers are pulled out of the air.) there isn't any standard way of saying it in scanner literature. one of the advantages promoted for the new Ektachrome G films is that they are more transparent when completely exposed. that means more transmittance and potentially more dynamic range, if the scanner's imaging element can handle it. Herb...
