> Simple answer; because you are scanning into a 16bit space and the > scanner is not 16bits. That 3.7 worth of information is linearly placed > along the 16bit histogram. Do you believe it is high bit justified, or just left low bit justified? In other words, does the scanner A/D give you a 12 bit value of 0101 1010 1010. Does that end up in the 16 bit space as 0101 1010 1010 0000 OR 0000 0101 1010 1010?
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RE: [Digital BW] Bit depth, was Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO
2001-09-26 by Austin Franklin