On 1 Feb 2004 at 19:17, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Tiff clearly supports (or at least allows files) in the 14 > bit (16 bit) range. Unfortunately, in order to do any > serious photoshop work, the files must be converted to 8 > bit. This is in PS 7.0 ... maybe other software allows more > flexibility at 16 bit. Still, a number of corrections and > modifications can be made in the 16 bit format, but using > layers is out .... gotta convert to 8 bit for that.
The ADC (analogue to digital convertor) in the camera is only 14bit precision however TIFF files need to be multiples of 8bit therefore data is padded with zeros to make it 16 bits. PS 7 works in full 16 bit only with a limited number of tools and filters, Pshop CS works entirely in 16 bit mode. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
