I agree... shoot at the highest bit rate always.
On 8/24/12 10:32 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On 2012-08-24 10:49, H wrote:
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
The final image fits in 8 bits well enough. It's the *original* image
that needs more resolution.
It's like negatives -- they had a lot more range than prints, and
which parts you printed where got decided in the darkroom. Using an
8-bit image from the camera or scan is like printing from slides,
there's no slack at all and in fact you don't have *quite* enough range.
