[Leica] New M(246) Outputs 12 bit Files

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

12 bit = 2 raised to the power of 12 = 4096 shades of gray

14 bit = 2 raised to the power of 14 = 16384 shades of gray

Quite a bit of tonal difference technically. Whether the human eye can
perceive it in a meaningful way in a print - who knows?

Cheers
Jayanand



On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On May 5, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm waiting to see what the explanation is. Going backwards in bit depth
> > from the M(240) is perplexing. Perhaps their chip cannot handle 14bit
> depth
> > of pure gray as opposed to 4 different 14bit depth channels of RGGB
> (4x1x4
> > vs 4x4 all at once...).
> >
> > But I'm no EE, so I'm hoping other experts will jump in to explain what
> is
> > lost by going back to 12bit files.
>
> OR   what is gained by going back to 12 bit files.
>
>
> s
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> It opened for me with no problem.
> >>
> >> Jim Nichols
> >> Tullahoma, TN USA
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5/5/2015 10:58 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> >>
> >>> This webpage is not available
> >>>
> >>> Tina
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> See post #46 by Jono Slack:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://www.getdpi.com/forum/leica/54592-new-monochrom-fine-report.html#post639690
> >>>>
> >>>> Curiouser and curiouser...
> >>>>
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