Re: 14->16
Re: 14->16
- Subject: Re: 14->16
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 23:36:20 EST
In a message dated 11/1/01 10:37:56 AM, email@hidden writes:
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> Most good quality scanners that I know of scan in 14-bits (do any capture
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> 16-bits?). Since this information gets passed on to Photoshop as 8 or
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> 16-bit information, my question is how this 14-bit information (16,384
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> discrete shades/channel) is translated into 16-bit?
At worst it is set as the lowest fourteen bits, leaving the image dark, but
easily correctable with the levels tool in Photoshop. Silverfast now centers
the data, which is an improvement, leaving it only in need of a bit of
targeting to be correct.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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