This may help explain it: http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/nikon-d300-d3-14-bit-versus-12-bit.html http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/14-bit-raw-12-bit-part-two.html
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmmm, so a camera with so many bits of RAW can do what then? Discern > 2^so many shades, right? And the dynamic range is about when it goes > to saturation either to pure black and pure white. Ok, so tell me > then, the wise people of PDML, is there a way looking at the same > picture shot with K-7 and K-5 to tell them apart? Or better yet, how > do I /see/ that one camera has wider DR than the other and that more > BPS in RAW are more beneficial than less BPS in RAW in real life. And > how all that translates to actual print? > > The only thing that comes to my mind is that wider DR and more BPS > gives me wider range of corrections in post or RAW development before > I start to see things like posterization etc. Anything beside/beyond > that? > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Miserere <miser...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 7 November 2010 08:09, Adam Maas <a...@mawz.ca> wrote: >>> Dynamic Range in EV has no effect on the amount of shades the K-5 can >>> discern, it is merely defines the maximum and minimum brightness >>> values which supply usable data at the same time. The ability to >>> discern individual shades (or more properly differences between two >>> shades) is solely controlled by how many bits wide the ADC system is. >>> The K-5 can discern 2^14 shades maximum across a 14.1 EV ( a >>> brightness range of 2^14.1) range according to the DxO tests. There is >>> no direct correspondence between the two. >>> >>> -Adam >> >> What Adam said. >> >> --M. >> >> PS: Thanks for saving me all that writing :-) >> >> >> -- >> >> \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com >> >> http://EnticingTheLight.com >> A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Boris > > -- > 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. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
