A question for you computer guys about bit depth per color channel in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing Posted October 8, 2004 My guess: information is stored in computer by bytes. 1 byte = 8 bits.Suppose we represent each channel by 9 bits, then each channel will take 2 bytes with 7 bits empty. This also results in 6 bytes per pixel, which doubles the raw file size. Since most people are happy with 8 bits per channel result, so maybe that is the way they decided to go at the beginning. I am still looking for my first scanner and see there are 14-bits available.
A question for you computer guys about bit depth per color channel
in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing
Posted
My guess: information is stored in computer by bytes. 1 byte = 8 bits.
Suppose we represent each channel by 9 bits, then each channel will take
2 bytes with 7 bits empty. This also results in 6 bytes per pixel, which
doubles the raw file size.
Since most people are happy with 8 bits per channel result, so maybe that is the way they decided to go at the beginning.
I am still looking for my first scanner and see there are 14-bits available.