Digital BW, The Print

Hi Bill,

You may very well be right, since sharpening certainly can change tonal
values!

I do NOT sharpen, nor do I advocate it...but I do understand some people
believe they need it...and I am sure they really do (well, I guess I'm sure
they do for what they have, but I believe there is some problem in their
process that necessitates this...), but I'm not clear if it's their scanner,
camera, lense, film, developing or what...that necessitates the need for
sharpening.

Regards,

Austin

>
> Austin, my understanding is that sharpening is better done at
> high bit also.
> Not sure exactly where I got this...
>
> Bill
>
> on 12/4/01 10:08 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> The only operation that benefits from 16 bits is tonal
> adjustment.  All the
> things you mention above don't benefit from higher bit depth, unless your
> output takes 16 bit data.
>
> Regards,
>
> Austin
>