On Jan 09 2002, Derrik Pates wrote:
> If you're doing prepress work or something, and need accurate
> representation of colors, especially grays, the 5-5-5 weighting of
> 15bpp will give more even grays than will 16bpp (they'll typically
> be off in the green, because of the extra bit for green).
Well, that's quite interesting, indeed. I didn't think about
that before, but it's obvious that the 16 bits couldn't be
evenly divided between the three colors. Now, that explains
why Apple would call "thousands of colors" the 15-bit mode.
[]s, Roger...
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