Digital BW, The Print

> Any time you make any
> adjustment in any size space you change the data set. If you stretch
> it out then you have holes that ultimately will be filled by
> interpolated data and if you compress it then values are rounded off.

I believe that's not really right.  The "holes" in the values don't get
interpolated...the holes are just left as holes.  Think about it, what
pixels are you going to assign the interpolated values to?  You'd have to
make up new pixels in the image!

> If the range of the film stays fixed and the bit depth goes up the
> width of the raw scan shouldn't change.

BINGO!  Unless you were clipping...