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RE: [Digital BW] Posterization in red channel

2005-01-11 by Richard Wolfson

Maybe on a clear day in the desert (blue sky, sand dunes) there's just
not much red light coming from the sky?

Richard Wolfson
Fine Art Photographer & Digital Imaging Consultant

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul D. DeRocco [mailto:pderocco@...] 
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 7:41 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Posterization in red channel
> 
> 
> > From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@...]
> >
> > 1Ds MK II all work in 16 bit.
> 
> Well, it's hard to imagine a quieter camera than that, and 
> it's with low-noise images that posterization is more likely 
> to be a problem. I wonder if there was some operation in your 
> workflow that's really performed on 8-bit data, even though 
> it claims to be 16-bit. That's about all I can think of.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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