I don't think so. Image quality is important beacsue you will work with it and apply effects. Ifyou looose information: it is lost, period. Think JPEG vs RAW. You can compress RAW of course...
2006/8/17, Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > -- ---------------------- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- *ist-D,Z1,SFXn,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

