Digital BW, The Print

Not to dwell on this forever, but while memory these days is cheap 
it's not dirt cheap. Whether to save your final versions as 8 bit vs. 
16 bit files remains a good question. If you merely save your keeper 
original raw "negative" files, plus the keeper raw conversion files, 
plus one non-layered keeper final print file and possibly a back-up 
raw conversion-DNG file (not to mention any B&W conversion files), it 
doesn't take that long to fill a 500GB hard drive. Saving your final 
print as an 8 bit file does save some storage space and money. Does 
anyone think we will ever be able to tell the differnce visually 
between a good 8 bit color file print and a 16 bit color file print?





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Watson 
<bwyg@...> wrote:
>
> Tyler Boley wrote:
> > If the over-riding concern is those better prints, why even bother
> > taking the chance?
> > Tyler
> >   
> Exactly. Succinct as usual Tyler.
> --
> Bruce Watson
>