Re: 16 bit per sample support

Jonathan A. Buzzard (jab@hex.prestel.co.uk)
Mon, 05 Apr 1999 22:57:35 +0000

oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE said:
> If the 12 bits are streched to a 16 bit range, the lower 4 bits are
> simply not used. If you want to add two images, you have to dived the
> values by two before you add the values.

Er, if I stretch to use the *full* dynamic range this is not the case.

> It is not the sense of SANE to deal with such special features. SANE
> is for scanning, we don`t want to make a new pixelgraphic program like
> gimp

SANE is for scanning, and what about those people that will be throwing
their hands in the air if the scanning software is mugging their precious
pixel values. For some applications this stretching of the values is
simply not acceptable, why is SANE seeking to rule these applications
out?

JAB.

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