16bit vs 8bit vs this world
16bit vs 8bit vs this world
- Subject: 16bit vs 8bit vs this world
- From: Brett Baunton Imagery <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 16:55:45 -0800
(Bruce Fraser) wrote:
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No, the major advantage of editing high-bit captures in high-bit mode
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is that you have a great deal more editing headroom before your image
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falls apart. If all you work with is chromes, you may see very little
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difference because chrome film is totally unforgiving about the way
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it renders an image onto film, and when you try to open shadows you
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simply see obvious film grain.
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Maybe thats why I have not seen noticable improvements in 16bit files.
I drum scan only high quality, lo speed (grain) transparency film.
As far as the headroom now I know what happened to the top of my head.
If pressed to scan a negative in anything other than a ccd 35mm scanner I
would rather make a custom print and flatbed that!
I really respect everyone's opinion on this list.
I should have known asking this 16vs8 question would raise a few hairs.
I just can't believe how contradictory all the insights and info are.
Pioneering the current color reproduction frontier seems full of speed bumps.
Just today we heard the to or not to BPC and a question about sRGB (i
thought that was dead) and AdobeRGB. People who I believe are experts are
not agreeing on alot of these issues, so as a photoshop user we just pray
Adobe gives us the right tools. I will archive my scans into 8bit and 16bit
for the day when we have a true 16bit editor and all the masking features
available.
Brett
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