Thinking along this line, and considering that music can be compressed with variable bit rates so that the detail goes where it is needed and not where it would be wasted, could image files be saved with variable bit depth?
Inky shadows and blue skies could get high compression and low bit depth 'cause there's almost nothing there, while busy lowlit foliage and earthy textural expanses etc. could get boosted bit depth and low compression to be full of detail and smooth gradation. If they can do it with music ..... Regards, Anthony Farr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco > Alpert > Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 4:35 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Holy Crap -- Pentax 10MP body > > I'm not much into guessing games, but for those who are, I noticed > this post from Aaron earlier today: > > > On Aug 16, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > > > If you shoot RAW you'll probably want nothing smaller than 2 Gig > > cards > > > for this camera, because of the 10-megapixels and... other factors. > > > > Other magnificent, wonderful factors. > > > > -Aaron > > One could certainly interpret that to imply that whatever the mystery > feature is, it results in additional data being stored on the SD card. > > -Marco > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
