There are no 16 bit printers. If your output is print the somewhere you'll need to convert to 8 bit or you'll have some nasty surprises when you print. The wonderful tonal range you get with 16 bit only goes as far as a zoomed-in monitor image. Nothing except your computer has any ability to work with higher than 8 bits. But that 16 bit stuff is nice to see on the screen for sure Sent from my iPhone On Aug 24, 2012, at 8:53, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2012-08-24 08:38, Lea Murphy wrote: >> Editing in Photoshop from Lightroom there is a huge file size difference >> between 8 and 16 bit. >> >> How large a print would a person need to make in order for the >> difference to be seen? >> >> Is the difference really worth it? >> >> Insight? Experience? I'd be happy to hear yours. > > It has little, maybe nothing, to do with print size. What it has to do with is how big an adjustment you can make without it showing up (as posterization or other artifacts). > > When I'm using Photoshop, I always use the highest bit depth I've got, which is generally 16 bits per channel. Luckily most of my files go through Bibble Pro, where it works internally in a big color space but doesn't save files that way, so it doesn't eat my disk that badly. > > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info >
