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Re: Subject Brightness Range - branch from [Digital BW] Re: Getting reasonable scan file sizes w/ MF & LF ...

2008-10-07 by Dana H. Myers

Tom Baker wrote:
> But, anything over 16 can't be represented in a 16 bit tiff file.

Bingo.  Further, the A/D converters in the Epson V700 are
16-bits as well and I really don't know about the optical
chain in the V700; practically speaking, I'd be surprised if
more than 14 stops are actually being captured in the
scan.

Dana

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