Sounds like it's really scanning in fewer bits, and the interpolation
arithmetic is smearing them around making it look like more bits. Are you
using PS to see the histogram?
Personally, I gave up on Silverfast after v4. Awful software--and awfully
expensive, too.
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Ciao, Paul D.
Tony Sleep wrote:
>One has to wonder if Silverfast could be cheating here, processing
>internally in 8 bits, but reading and outputting a 16 bit file. Polaroid
>Insight used to do this.
>
This is so bizarre! If I scan in AI in "48bit HDR color" (raw) mode at
4000dpi and then scan the resulting fi