Re: Dynamic range and bit depth
Re: Dynamic range and bit depth
- Subject: Re: Dynamic range and bit depth
- From: Bob Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 07:54:26 -0600
Roger Breton wrote:
>
A 10 bit scanner can represent 1024 discrete levels (2 to the 24 power)
>
which corresponds to a dynamic range of 3.
But wouldn't that depend on how light or how dark the value is at end of
those 1024 steps. In other words, the difference in brightness from one
step to the next is not arbitrary is it? If that's the case, then bit depth
and dynamic range are not related at all.
Bob Smith