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Lovely, 16 bit gives plenty of leaway for 'justments, 32 bit would be even nicer! (what would that be 15+ stops tonal range?), all with the right kind of low noise sensors. Don't you think Ansel Adam would have loved digital capture and colour management?, its like the zone system with knobs on. He would have been the guy with the large format digital back, sitting there and getting 20 stops tonal range by making multiple exposures from inside a cave looking out at full sunshine.. I think 8 bit will still be mainstream for ever though, its the same kind of cost/benefit water level that sees most of us using 35mm format cameras rather than 5x4 or 10x8. Well actually I could imagine photographers going the 16 bit route, it would come to a juddering halt as soon as it hit a printers imagesetter though. Perhaps thats where larger bit depth belongs in pre (re)productoion. Related topic: Anyone had a Hexachrome job printed recently? Stephen Johnson =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
