Re: [OM] Digital vs. Film, Round 10203030330...

[Chuck Norcutt]

I think it relates to AG's claim of increased color depth at the expense 
of dynamic range.  There are only so many bits to go around in a 16 bit 
representation.  If more bits are used to represent a greater range of 
colors then fewer bits are available to represent the brightness range 
of those colors.  If the additional colors represented are not 
meaningful to you (that it you can't see or print them) then they are 
wasting bits better applied to dynamic range.

Chuck Norcutt


Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> Maybe plain ignorance, but I can't help asking myself: ¿how is it that
> bits could be wasted?
> They may become meaningless.
> Therefore, one should agree beforehand the 'sense' or perhaps the
> 'purpose' of whatever meaning one is attempting to describe /
> represent / translate.
> Out of practice but in theory perhaps.
> 
> Fernando.
> 
> --- shall start Bruce's book today.
> 
> 2009/12/11 Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> In practice, it's pretty much impossible to find
>> a space that contains all your colors yet doesn't waste bits,
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