Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org> said
> There seems to be a bit war in the scanner industry right now. We are
> starting to see some outrageous numbers of bits quote. The best real values
> are about 14 per color, or 42 overall. Anything more is fiction. In practice,
> most scanners only send 8 bits per colour to the host. The rest are lost in
> gamma correction witin the scanner.
However, having enough bits to get a decent 8 bits after gamma correction
is important, especially when trying to scan dark images or slides.
Bill Sebok Computer Software Manager, Univ. of Maryland, Astronomy
Internet: wls@astro.umd.edu URL: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~wls/
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