On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, DagT wrote:
> In theory I think you could gain 4 stops. One stop is x2 more light, so x2^4
> should translate to 4 stops.
>
... and the lowest 4 stops would be nothing but noise unless the
physics of the sensor have improved. That's the reason why 12 or 14 bits
is all that has been done so far... no point in using 16 or 22 bits for a
device that has 0dB SNR by the 12th bit anyway.
-Cory
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