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RE: [Digital BW] Bit depth, was Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO

2001-09-26 by Austin Franklin

> > > You could use a scanner like that and see them in a print if you
> > > expanded a small section of tones to use the whole gamut.
> >
> > I suggest you do some research on the capabilities of the human eye...
>
> What does the human eye have to do with it if you are expanding a small
> tonal region to use a larger gamut that the human eye CAN see?

This is getting futile.  Yes you COULD do this, but for most everyone it is
entirely useless.  No one but you seems to have any desire to want to do it.
Most people scan their entire range of their image and print it, or put it
on the web.  The intermediate density values you so seek will do NOTHING for
everyone else, they can not be seen.

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