Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ken Carney" 
<kcarney1@c...> wrote:
> > The conversion took place in something called zoombrowser-ex 
> > but they didn't end up in PS as 16 bit but as 8 bit. Don't 
> > things have to be converted to 8 bit to use a lot of the PS tools?
> 
> Tim, I never used the Canon raw converter because of an internet 
convergence
> of opinion that it was really bad.  But it should open in PS as a 
16-bit
> (really 12-bit) file.  PS 8 (a/k/a PS CS  - what were they thinking 
with
> that name?) allows layers and more tools in 16-bit.  Fortunately I 
don't
> print that large (up to 10x15 image size or so) but with 1.3 gb RAM 
it's a
> little slow in 16-bit.

I was out of town for several days but I wanted to thank everyone who 
responded to my my posts. You folks are great.I will look into 
alternative conversion techniques. 

I am currently using the Canon software to convert the raw files into 
tif files which I then convert into PSD files for editing and 
printing. Does anyone here print and edit the tif files? Is there 
quality loss into converting to PSD?

Tim