[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner
Jonathan Buzzard
jonathan@buzzard.org.uk
Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:43:15 +0000
ukd@xenon.pc.Uni-Koeln.DE 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.
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