Digital BW, The Print

Yes. Although I prefer drum scans for my own work I look around me and
 see scanning as something that is quickly becomeing an ancient art
form. Digital capture is where everything is going,very fast, and
along with that we can expect more and more bit depth.

PS CS2 already supports greater than 16 bits per channel and a lot of
people are utilizing it for combining three exposure digital camera
files of static subjects for much greater dynamic range capability and
are whining that they don't have that capability with people photography.

We will certainly see a steady movement toward higher bit depth and I
assume the printers will be forced to catch up to it (if they can).
What isn't clear to me, but I am sure is to people who are on the
inside of the r & d, is whether this will come as a series of gradual
increases in bit depth, or rather dramatic bursts of chip capability.
I don't know just how much of the greater light and hue sensitivity is
tied to bit depth and how much can be acomplished by other means. But
I will assume we will look back on 8 bit per channel the same way we
look back on 8 track audio tape players now.

Anyway if something is really important to me I save it in as high of
a bit depth as I am capable of saving and I plan to keep doing that. 

John  





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless
<samcc@...> wrote:
>
> At 2:32 PM +0000 3/21/06, john dean wrote:
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >... Next year we are going to be talking about
> >32 bit storage and workflow. We'll all need more ram.
> >
> >john
> 
> I'm guessing, John, that this is from some innovation you expect from 
> digital cameras, rather than film scanners?
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Sam
>