Believe it or not that's a tough question. You might join the Digital B&W group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint
Though B&W doesn't have the RGB colors it does lend itself to posterization, which was mentioned before in this thread. Maris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 10:12 AM Subject: Re: Scanning Terminology Questions | OK ... I think I've got it now. | | One more question. Everyone's describing color. How does all this work | with B&W? Do I need as many bits to get good B&W results? | | Jan van Wijk wrote: | | > Yes, except that "16 bits" is not 16 | > different colors but "2 to the power of 16" | > which is 65536! | > | > (see my other reply for more examples) | > | > In you above anlogy, you could have a pixel | > using "24 bits" which would be 8 bits for each | > basic color Red, Green and Blue. | > | > It would mean the scanner can select between | > 256 different Reds, 256 different Greens | > and 256 different Blue cans of paint to mix | > to get the color for that one pixel. | > (that is over 16 million different colors to choose from) | | -- | Shel Belinkoff | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ | - | 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 . | - 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 .
