Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "tomoc" <TomOC@s...> wrote:
> Hi all-
> 
> I thought Austin was going to address this in the last 16/8 thread, 
> but it died <g>.
> 
> 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'm only going to comment on the digital camera part. Without starting 
a Nikon/Canon war, if you have a Canon G2 instead of the Nikon 5000, 
it passes 10 bits to photoshop in "16 bit mode", allowing you to edit 
images easily. The G2 is in the same price range and feature set as 
the Nikon 5000, with the Nikon at 5 megapixels vs 4 for the Canon, 
which I don't feel makes a lot of difference, but the Canon has a 
faster lens at f2 vs f2.8, which I feel does make a quality 
difference.

In this light, there is no need to worry about not having headroom to 
work the curves.

Also when storing a full RAW image, Canon only uses about 3.5 mb on 
the CF card- it stores the color info encoded in some way, so that 
software is used to process the full color image once back home on 
your computer.


Jim H.