Re: 16 bits = 15 bits in Photoshop?
Re: 16 bits = 15 bits in Photoshop?
- Subject: Re: 16 bits = 15 bits in Photoshop?
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:09:58 -0700
I didn't write a good chunk of what you quoted, so I'll let the other
quotees speak for themselves.
Probably tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people have made this
comparison rather than the dozen you claim. I'm not sufficiently
arrogant or delusional to believe that all these people are editing
in 16-bit just because I say it's a good idea. Rather, they've made
their own comparisons and come to the same conclusions as I did.
However, I've published one relatively trivial example on page 23 of
Real World Camera Raw.
At 10:09 AM -0600 2/6/02, Bruce J. Lindbloom wrote:
I will say right up front that I recognize the fact that Dan has years of
practical experience and has helped a lot of people through his seminars and
publications. He has a large and faithful following.
But with his 16-bit challenge, he speaks outside his knowledge base. His
test conditions are vague and incomplete, he modifies the conditions
on-the-fly to suit his purposes and the final judgement (i.e. which image is
better) is made by him alone in the privacy of his own office. There is no
accountability. He has never made any images available for independent
review. I have told him that his test is a self-fulfilling prophecy because
he has control over all the parameters that ensure that he gets his desired
outcome. I will say again that if you go after this red herring, you are
giving credence to his terms and you deserve what you get in the end. My
advice: Just ignore Dan and his challenge. It is a non-topic.
Nothing has changed in the 3 years since Bruce wrote that, and his
advice remains sound.
I don't tell other people what to do, I simply point out the
consequences of different courses of action. If you can't see the
difference, then for you there is no difference, and you should work
in 8-bit sRGB, bouncing into Lab and CMYK and back again, as your
correction needs dictate, until the heat-death of the universe. Happy?
Bruce
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