Re: So it's the bits? (Was: filmscanners: Sprintscan 120 nowon B+H web

2001-01-11 Thread Tony Sleep
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:16:57 + photoscientia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Oh no! Not this again. The answer is one word - linearity. My reaction entirely :-) Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner info comparisons

Re: So it's the bits? (Was: filmscanners: Sprintscan 120 nowon B+H web

2001-01-11 Thread Julian Robinson
Oh no! Not this again. The answer is one word - linearity. My reaction entirely :-) But linearity explains only one half of the issue - that is, that you can't do BETTER for dynamic range than what is implied by the number of bits. Linearity doesn't make the most useful point that

Re: So it's the bits? (Was: filmscanners: Sprintscan 120 nowon B+H web

2001-01-11 Thread Robert E. Wright
Finally!? - Original Message - From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 5:59 PM Subject: RE: So it's the bits? (Was: filmscanners: Sprintscan 120 nowon B+H web In other words number of bits does NOT define Dmax, it only defines