--- Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are you ultimately going to do with the images?
> If you will print
> them, or have them printed, the output device will
> print them at 8 bits.
I will archive PEF file. I will import temporarily
when its needed.
Some numbers for a sample image
PEF-> 13MB
Imported 8bit TIFF 7MB
Imported 16bit TIFF 37MB
I was using Nikon LS-4000; compared to its file sizes,
DSLR's 13MB is very much managable!!!
Thanks
Ramesh
>
> I use 16 bits only for the most important images.
> Even still, onscreen,
> I can see very little difference between 8 and 16
> bits. So I rarely use
> 16 bits.
>
> The PEF importer will import images at 16 bits. If
> you want them to be 8
> bits, you must convert them. This takes just 3
> clicks.
>
> Joe
>
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