Am 26.12.2012 21:22, schrieb Klaus Post:
> Hi!
> 
> A few weeks ago dithering was added to Rawspeed, as part of the bit
> scaling process. Rawspeed delivers 16 bit images, so for images that are
> scaled from 12 to 16 bit, the "new" 4 bits now contain noise instead of
> "0" (or any other fixed value). I don't know when or if darktable has
> been updated with this code.
> 
> I think the only case where dithering isn't applied is some compressed
> Nikon formats that contain values compressed with a fixed tone curve,
> but other than that you should get automatic dithering on all images
> already.

I think we are mostly plagued with banding in the 8-bit quantization
regime. Therefore noise added at 12bit will be too low to prevent that
kind of artifacts.

But you are right concerning 16-bit output formats.

Ulrich


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