Film has no bits. :-) The Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV that Adam mentioned produces 16-bit scans. I have one as well and have had no problems getting the desired dynamic range from scanned film images. I also use VueScan. Of course your scan will be no better than the 1st generation image.
I find that my scanned film images always seem to retain the magical film quality even though digital. I don't know why that is, or if it's my imagination, but there's a certain quality of smoothness or naturality that I see in them. Tom C. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > Or is 8 bits all that there really is to film? to get more you'd need a > nonlinear conversion in the under and over exposed areas? > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
