[filmscanners] RE: Help with Vuescan?

["michael shaffer" <michael@shaffer.net>]

Titus writes ...

> ... there is something I do not understand.
> If at the end we convert the image to 8 bit because printing
> devices cannot beneficiate from the 16 bit depth what's the
> use of scanning in 16 bit?
> Wouldn't an image scanned with 8 bit colour depth be the same
> with an image scanned at16 bit and converted in PS at 8 bit?
> Or in other words what are the advantages of scanning in 16 bit?

  See the following online articles by Bruce Fraser here:
http://www.creativepro.com/author/home/40.html

1.  "Out of Gamut: The High-Bit Advantage"
2.  "Out of Gamut: Exploring Wide, Open (Color) Spaces"
3.  "Out of Gamut: You Can't Do This to High-Bit Files
    in Photoshop (or Can You?)"

cheerios ... shAf  :o)
Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland
www.micro-investigations.com (in progress)

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