I assumed even distribution of the grey scales such that even in the most sensitive range of light levels to the eye, the human eye still cant tell the difference with 64K shades EVENLY across the board. Wow this is getting nit picky huh? JCO
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: state of the art 35mm DSLR On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:48:30 -0400, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > Don't forget there are limits to how many shades of > gray the human eye can distinguish, how many shades > that is I don't know but I have a hunch it is less > than 2^16 shades (16 bit grayscale)which is 64K shades. Sure. And if the points at which the sensor switches over from one shade to another don't match the points at which the eye does, you'll still get quantization error, even if they can distinguish the same number of shades. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
