Digital BW, The Print

I think it comes down to what you are doing.  If you are just making one
subtle move...then I don't think it matters...but if you are making several
moves...and they tend to be large...the chance of screwing up your image may
be less with a 16bit file.  Calculation errors tend to compound on each
other.

As a matter of practice...you should always be shooting in RAW or Tiff mode
with a digital camera if you intend to do anything serious with the image.
Jpg artifacts reek havoc with almost anything you do in photoshop (e.g.,
tonal corrections, sharpening, etc.)...in my experience with D1, D1x and 990
images.

Robert

On 5/26/02 4:20 PM, "Todd Flashner" <tflash@...> wrote:

> 
>> Do you think there is any advantage gained from converting an 8 bit
>> image (usually a .jpg from a Nikon 5000) to 16 bit before doing any
>> adjustments in PS?.
>> 
> 
> I personally don't think so because I don't think our output methods can
> even display the subtle differences that already exist between all 255
> shades in an 8-bit file, let alone tens of shades between each of the 255
> integers.
> 
> Lets say you have a digital clock that clicks off the time one second at a
> time: 12:01..12:02..12:03..12:04..
> 
> Does it matter if in order to make a certain calculation of time you add in
> tenths of seconds,
> 12:0100..12:0101..12:0102..12:0103..12:0104....12:0199..12:0200, if
> ultimately your result will be displayed as either 12:01 or 12:02?
> 
> Furthermore, from what I've seen, quadtone prints are really only able to
> display some every other integer or less. (Some 100 tones out of 255). It
> would be like a clock whose sequence was 12:01..12:03..12:05...
> 
> Todd
> 
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