>> >> Differently put, some of what this 22-bit thingy is about, is probably >> that the signal is converted to digital a bit earlier in the sequence, >> so as to speak. This does eliminate some sources of noise - >> probably not >> the most significant ones, but still... >> [ ... ] >> > Certainly an interesting conjecture ... > > Much as I enjoy understanding how the little beastie works, however, > I'm likely going to refrain from stripping it apart to deconstruct > and understand all the details... Oh, come on, what can possibly be more fun than picking something expensive apart just to find out how it works - and destroy it completely in the process? Always loved it as a child. Still do ;-) > I'm more interested to see how it > performs in picture taking than on a lab bench. > Seriously, though, you are absolutely right, of course.
As long as you know enough to be sure that all those "good-looking" pictures you are seeing aren't a result of some fancy piece of image-processing that would utterly and completely ruin your photos in other situations... - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
