Re: 8 verses 16 bit

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You will note from the notes Preston guided you to that Dan Margulis believes there is no practical advantage to working with 16-bit files.  Bruce Frasier takes an opposite position:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/7627.html

This issue has been debated many times in many forums - AFAIK no definitive answer has arisen.

Maris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Preston Earle" <PEarle@triad.rr.com>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: 8 verses 16 bit


| "John Henry Galindo" <photo@mcn.org> asked: "Will someone please tell me
| the advantage(s) of working with 16 bit verses 8 bit files. Better yet,
| is there an online tutorial?"
| 
| There is considerable debate about the value of 16-bit files for
| photographic images. You might check the notes on this subject from the
| Applied Color Theory discussion group at
| http://www.ledet.com/margulis/ACT_postings/ACT-8-bit-16-bit.html
| 
| Theoretically, 16-bit color reduce banding when large color adjustments
| in images are required, but from a practical point, any differences may
| not be noticeable in finished images.
| 
| Preston Earle
| PEarle@triad.rr.com
| 
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