[email protected] said: > Why?
Because you are chucking useful information away, that you have just spent hundreds of pounds on a specialist film scanner to acquire, would be the first answer. > First of all, truncation is an option, not a must. Second, you usually > want to end up with JPEGs, and that implies 3x8 bit encoding. Speak for yourself then. Even if your final output is a JPEG you almost certainly want a greater bit-depth for the digital darkroom. I certainly have needed greater than 8bit images for many scanned negatives. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: [email protected] Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1661-832195
