RE: filmscanners: Re: So it's the bits?

[Austin Franklin]

> > The pixel values (for which the range of is the
> > theoretically highest Dmax for the scanner)
> > are relative to each other, not absolute, ...

> Correct ... the "pixel values" associated with measuring Dmax may be
> relative ... but "Dmax" is a measured value, is absolute, and belongs
> to film.  Small point, but let's not confuse terms.

The scanner manufacturers use Dmax as a specification item, which you said
they didn't, but they do.  We were talking about that, not a wit about film.
We were talking about how many bits correspond to the different values of
Dmax (amongst many other things), and that is NOT measured.

I don't know what your point is, but I suggest you go read the thread, and
if you take issue with the term "Dmax" used with a scanner, than take it up
with the scanner manufacturers.