Digital BW, The Print

Why does my scanner have the option to scan in either 16 or 8 bits then?
What would be the point?

I'm only talking about large tonal adjustments when I say the 16 is
always superior to 8 bit.

Jerry

> It depends on when you do your tonal curves.  Remember, most every scanner
> is going to scan in ONLY high bit, it's how they work.  Typically, you have
> a choice of 8 bit tone curve applied output, or raw output, but as I said,
> both are scanned at the bit depth of the scanner, therefore there really is
> no "scanning in 8 bits".