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Re: [Digital BW] 16-bit Scanning: Why?

2001-12-05 by mtucker508

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Austin Franklin" 
<darkroom@i...> wrote:
> What happens when you make tonal adjustments with 8 bits is 
you loose tonal
> values. 


Would these tones "moving around" and getting shifted be 
responsible for a histogram that had holes in it? (Not that I've 
ever had one, but a friend of a friend told me that *they* had 
some missing areas in *their* histograms...

If this is the case, then you certainly have my full-on attention.

Mark

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