The advantage of 16 bit comes from when you do a lot of photoshop work on
it. Your screen can only show an 8 bit image, that's why you don't see a
difference on your freshly converted RAW files. If you increse contrast a
lot or do strong color correcting, you'll get posterization that you CAN see
both on screen and in prints if you use 8 bit files. So..if you get a
near-perfect file from your RAW converter, then 8bit is fine. If you like to
do a lot of tonal correction in Photoshop, use 16bit. You'll also want 16
bit if you use Photoshop to convert color photos to black & white.
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On 10/4/08 10:28 AM, "John Hermanson" <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I had been using Raw Shooter Essentials for a while but am now trying
> out Raw Therapee. Is there any benefit to saving a processed ORF as a
> 16 bit tiff instead of 8 bit? I don't see it, but 16 bit is twice the
> file size, 47 meg versus 23.5 .
>
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