Re: 16 bit editing...

["John M. Roper" <johnroper@sbcglobal.net>]

At 07:38 PM 5/22/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>If so, then using 16-bit now is more for future-proofing our images, than
>getting an obvious immediate gain. File size is not so much a problem these
>days, surely? I've two old computers, one with a single 1.2 GB hard disk,
>one with a 30GB hard disks, and a new one I've put together with 240GB of
>disk space. Together with DVD-RAM disks that store nearly 10GB, storage is
>not the problem that it was a few years ago. So if keeping my files in
>16-bit means that in a year or two I can reprint them on a 16-bit printer,
>then that is probably a good enough reason.


Chances are, when that day comes, you will have a better scanner and will 
want to re-scan the images anyway.

John Roper


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