Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Techo-babble. In theory, 12/14 bits ADC gives you more shape of each RGB. e.g. with 8 bits, a red pixel will have 256 levels of red, with 12 bits, it's 10^12, or 4096 levels and so on. However, most RAW file encoding (forget about JPG, they are compressed to heck) end up being 8 bits per pixel anyway, so you may start out with more, but the end results are significantly less. HOWEVER-however, some of the newer files use more bits. I *think* the S2 may be one of them. If it is, you can bet that Phase One, Hasy etc. will also do the same, if not already. I am almost ceratin that M9 is *not* one of them, but I'm sure Henning or others will correct me if I am wrong. HOWEVER-however-however, the Pentax high end dSLR, whatever it's called, claims it uses either 12 bit or 14 bit for internal processing back in 2007 or so, and when's the last time you heard people raving about its dynamic range or color to be far superior to others that don't use the high bit rate? Mark, you need to stop reading specs and start showing more of your pictures :-)!! On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I read a thing the day before yesterday that said the difference been > medium > format digital and smaller formats like 24x36 or cropped formats is 16 bit > for the medium. > 12 for the smaller. > > With the 16 bit each pixel pacs a punch. > Anybody know anything about this? > > I'm checking bits now on my cameras. And the Leica M9 and S2. > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963