Digital BW, The Print

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Austin Franklin" <
> darkroom@i...> wrote:
> >
> > > > This does raise the question of, if the scanner is only capable of
> > > > capturing 3.7 worth of information, why doesn't it
> automatically expand
> > > > the range to fill the 16bit space, even in a raw scan.
> > >
> > > I believe some scanners can do this, like the Imacon for one,
> but I don't
> > > consider that a raw scan anymore. That's a manipulated scan.
> > >
> > > Todd
> >
> > I agree ;-)
>
> I don't disagree, but if the scanner is ONLY capable of capturing that
> range and nothing outside of it, it seems to me that it should, maybe
> even as a default, spread that range over the 16bits.

Any time the data is manipulated it is NOT raw, plain and simple.  Spreading
it out makes it NOT raw data.  That was the only point.  I don't understand
your point about "capturing only that range".  What do you mean by that?

Do you guys not have to work or something?  This has been many hours of back
and forth already today...