Digital BW, The Print

> From: mojojones2001 [mailto:mojojones@...]
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> I find the difference in working in 16 bit significant when doing
> initial tonal corrections.  The extra data allows you to make much
> more tonal shifts without producing gaps.  Once I've done that I go to
> 8 bit for all other edits.  Now whether or not your capture or output
> device and differentiate that many levels is another story.

Are you talking about gaps in the histogram? Those don't necessarily
translate into anything visible in the image. If there's enough noise or
texture in the image, it will dither across the gap, effectively filling it
in, as far as the eye is concerned.

I've only seen slight degradation due to 8-bit resolution in blue sky from a
very quiet low ISO digicam image.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...