Re: Flatbed scanners vs Pro Photo CDs
Re: Flatbed scanners vs Pro Photo CDs
- Subject: Re: Flatbed scanners vs Pro Photo CDs
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:24:29 EST
on 12/4/00 9:21 PM, Jan Steinman at email@hidden wrote:
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Something is rotten here. Bits-per-pixel and Dmax should roughly
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correspond, unless those are "marketing bits" instead "real bits." A
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"real" 14 bit scanner should achieve Dmax circa 3.6. If it's
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quantizing to 14 bits, but for whatever reason (noise, whatever), it
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can only achieve 3.2 Dmax, then a number of those bits are simply
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returning noise.
First time I've heard this one; I'll have to add it to my digital legends
list...
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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