Re: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

[Robert E. Wright]

----- Original Message -----
From: Austin Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial
photography


>
> > "...The digital camera gives you only 6M*8bit/channel=6Mbytes..."
> > 6Mpixels *8bits/channel *3channels = 144Mbytes. This assumes 3
bytes/pixel
> > it may be higher if bit deepth per channel is greater than 8.
> > Bob Wright
>
> Er, no.  That would be 144M BITS, not bytes, which is 24M Bytes...
>
Mea coupa! But still greater than 6 Mbytes.