Digital BW, The Print

It wouldn't take any longer to calculate a 16 bit histogram. To calculate
the distribution of pixels values in an image you have to count every pixel.
The number of pixels to count is the same whether you're dividing the
distribution into 256 buckets or 64K.

-Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Wesley [mailto:mwesley250@...]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 12:28 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Bit depth, was Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO

Think about how long it can take Photoshop to calculate a 256 value
histogram. Think about how long it would take do display a 65636
histogram. We would never look at it.

...

Probably wouldn't make use any better print makers but what we need
is a 16-bit histogram utility (with zoom) and very, very, very fast
computers to run it on. <<g>>