Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:55 PM 6/21/98 -0700, you wrote: >If you digitize the image with a CCD, using 12 bits for each of red, blue >and green, you get a dynamic range of 1 part in 2 to the 12th or 12 stops It sounded significant to me because Kodak's digital cameras act more like chrome film than negative film. They don't like contrast that much, and prefer underexposure to overexposure. Besides, that's a number they used in the ad. I wasn't trying to make it sound like that was the only important statistic. What's more important with this kind of camera, I guess, is how long an image takes to "shoot." - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English...no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. Carl Sagan