I would be extremely concerned about this banding issue and try to resolve it immediately. I have processed many many digital images both film and digital sourced, most of them 8 bit pwer channel, and I have almost never have seen any banding at all unless it was a very very very low contrast poorly exposed image that was over processed back to normal contrast. I think banding is a non issue for any normally exposed non conrast expanded image, even with the 8 bit/jpeg format. Could this be a monitor artifact or something else? I am and have been using a high grade sony CRT for the last few years on the PC which has excellent gray scale linearity so I dont think my monitor could be masking the effect if thats what you might be thinking, it hasnt showed up on my epson 1280 prints either and it would wouldnt it if it was there and my monitor was masking it? Maybe this is a terminlogy confusion issue? I always thought "banding" to be where you can see discreet "stepped" rather than continuous smooth changes in luminance or chroma across a gradient.
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