Digital BW, The Print

> > 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.

That isn't true, Todd just mentioned a case of thinking that a 14bit 
scanner did this when in fact it doesn't but he would like it too (I 
assume). I think most people would at this point, because nobody needs 
to scan a chrome with a range of 4.8

-mh