I think I goofed and only sent this to Carl before...

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From: Karl Kuehn <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: 48-bit photos?
To: Carl Hoefs <[email protected]>


The new phones are capable of 10-bit-per-channel color (vs 8bpc in older
ones). However you have to be taking the pictures in the "High Efficiency"
mode rather than "Compatibility" mode so that it saves in HEIF format
rather than JPEG (which can only store 8bpc). The "48-bit images" probably
comes from the fact that HEIF can store 16bpc images, so 48bpp
(bits-per-pixel), but the sensors are not actually capable of that (yet). I
don't know the HEIF format well enough to know if it can store 10bpc
images, or if you have to go from 8bpc directly to 16bpc, again another
possible source of confusion.

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:29 PM Carl Hoefs <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've been told that "iPhones (after iPhone 6S) are capable of taking
> photos with 48-bit images."
>
> Can anyone with a newer iPhone verify/deny this claim? I've never heard of
> such a thing.
>
> -Carl
>
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