Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Prints from slides
From: "Michael D. Turner" <mike@lcl-imaging.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 14:15:41 -0700

Mark-
Quite true, any decent scanner scans to at least 12 bit depth. However, the
data is generally mapped to 8 bits/color/pixel when written to a file, such
as a TIFF file.
- -Mike
At 02:05 PM 6/6/1998 -0700, Mark, you wrote...
>Dan Cardish wrote:
>8-bits per color is not enough to do a reasonable scan. 10-bits per color
>is close to being OK. 12-bits is much better, yet even at this depth you
>are only achieving a color range akin to 400ASA film (in my experience).
>
>m
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