Digital BW, The Print

Dear Roy,

A few weeks ago, a debate raged over 8bit versus
16bit imaging within the Yahoo ScanHi-End Group,
where many of the participants work with good quality
drum scanning devices daily, as part of their livelihood.

The scanning debate brought to the surface several good
points, bad points and numerous opinions, regarding
which level of information was good, better, best...

The thread is entitled ³Combed histograms from drum
scanning service.²  The thread proves to be a good read,
and the thread offers additional information that might
prove to be useful, for all of our archived files.

One day in the not so distant future, an output device
might be able to digest the abundance of data available,
and produce an image we only dream about.  Imaging
will more than likely take steps into the realm of more
and more bits, as processors become faster and more
powerful, and continually operate within 64bit or 128bit
channels.

Will we be able to discern the difference in the output
this possible higher plateau offers? Maybe not, but then
again, I will always remember the day I saw a 16X20
image produced from an 8X10 negative sitting beside
a 16X20 image produced with a 35mm negative.

Just a thought about where we might be one day...

jim k







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