Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

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

2001-12-05 by Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.

Yes - that is precisely the cause of the 'combed' histogram.

Maris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mtucker508" <mark@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] 16-bit Scanning: Why?


| --- 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
| 
| 
| 
| Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, Bookmarks, Polls and other resources as they are often being updated. The page is at:
| 
| http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint
| 
| Please follow these basic guidelines:
| - Include your full name with your message.
| - Include the address of your website, if you have one.
| - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep them short.
| - As the topic of a thread changes remember to change the subject header.
| - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or "flames."
| - Complete your Yahoo profile.
| - Before posting a question, search the message archives and the various resources on the homepage. 
| 
| 
|  
| 
| Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 
| 
| 
|

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.