Well Frank, you are going to have to explain your comment below. Now we are not talking about someone like Fuji who are giving interpolated values. I guess my reference digital camera would be the Kodak DCS*60 series. Now are you telling me they don't give an actual 18 megabyte image? Of course the current generation of film scanners are more than 24 bit. Even my cheap flatbed is 48 bit.
--graywolf ------------------------------------------------- The optimist's cup is half full, The pessimist's is half empty, The wise man enjoys his drink. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And, to top it all off, you've just (apparently) fallen victim to > exactly the sort of flim-flammery the camera manufacturers want you to > fall victim to. An xMP image from a digital camera is (generally) > _not_ equal to an xMP image from a scanner. The scanner actually > captures 24 or more bits of color data for each of those individual > pixels. A digital camera usually only captures one "color's worth" of > data for each pixel and interpolates the rest from its surroundings. > So, the end result is not even as good as comparing an xMP full color > digital camera image to an xMP scanned image. The flip side of the > coin is that a digital image is first generation, where a scanned film > image is second generation. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
