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Re: 16 bit vs. 15 bit
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Re: 16 bit vs. 15 bit


  • Subject: Re: 16 bit vs. 15 bit
  • From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:04:11 -0400

> Hello, all,
> My experience with 8 vs.16 bit tells me one can see a difference on a well
> behaved monitor, between an image captured in 16 bit, and the same image
> changed to 8 bit in Photoshop when one toggles back and forth between the
> two; this difference I see is very, very slight. However, on my Roland 8
> channel printer CMYKcmOG calibrated and tuned to a fare-the-well, running
> Onyx Postershop ,further calibrated before linearizing, custom profiled with
> GMB. There is no doubt that anyone can see the difference between an 8 bit
> image printed in 8 bit and the same image in 16 bit printed in 16 bit.
> (Postershop is 16 bit enabled and the image is captured in 16 bit).
> The difference is in the fullness of the color blending, or a significant
> lessening of compression in color transitions, the difference is not Huge,
> but anyone can see it.
>
> John Wickham

Thank's John for coming to the party!

Regards,

Roger Breton  |  Laval, Canada  |  email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx


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