Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Watson
<bwyg@...> wrote:
...
> I know some experts and realize that I'm not one. I'm not correcting 
> anything. I'm just giving you my perspective which is based on my 
> experience and my reading. I think we all want the same thing which is, 
> in the end, better prints.
> --
> Bruce Watson
>
whatever the level of expertise, I found that very interesting. The
last sentence is so right after all is said and done. From my
experience, most of us use 8 bit for years seeing no problems, even if
there may be some unseen sacrifice. Then suddenly one file is simply
impossible to print without problems, and had it been high bit all the
way through you'd be done and moved on. From there on out, just to
avoid that, we do hi bit. We may be unaware of the precise
improvements we get from there on out, and I suspect it varies
dramatically from image to image.
Someone mentioned this issue nearly disapears with such cheap storage
and memory these days, it's used to be a bigger problem. Also, PS
could do little to nothing with it back then.
If the over-riding concern is those better prints, why even bother
taking the chance?
Tyler