Digital BW, The Print

How does one tell if this truncation is happening ???
The log magnitude scaling options on VueScan are quite good at
enhancing details in these old photos, but I can't tell if they
are true 8 or 16 (12) bit..

Best,
Alex


> ..... One thing I noted with Vuescan is that if it does not properly
> recognize the scanner and it's data stream, it truncates the incoming data
> to 8-bit and then remaps it to 16-bit which amounts to throwing away most of
> the data your scanner can produce.
> 
>
> Martin Wesley