Yes, it is important for me to have all this extra color information, although you are unable to see it, it is very useful when color grading /adjusting levels etc of the scanned film.
But does anyone have any idea how I can get PIL to read my file? Thanks, On 12 April 2010 15:30, Oliver Tonnhofer <o...@bogosoft.com> wrote: > > On 12.04.2010, at 14:34, Sebastian Haase wrote: > >> My point was also, that I would doubt that there is physically(!) more >> information than 16e6 possible values per pixel. >> A digital gray scale CCD camera with more than 12 bits costs multiple >> 1000s of Euros or Dollars... >> > > Every current DSLR camera has more than 8bits per color, a Canon EOS 450D > has 14bit for example. While a human eye might not see any difference with > more than 8bits, you can use the information when manipulating the image > (e.g. change the exposure/brightness). > > Regards, > Oliver >
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