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Why does Rawstudio display individual RAW color levels as 8-bit values?
I use rawstudio to deal with raw images that I shoot on my Canon 600D(T3i).
I don't understand why the raw image's RGB color only displays values in a 8bit base (0-255) when I put the mouse over the ...
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Why are my 14-bit RAW files being saved as 8-bit on my computer?
I shoot a Canon 5D Mark ii at the highest quality setting. RAW files on this camera are supposed to be 14 bit, but when I save them on my computer, they are all being converted somehow to 8 bit. I use ...
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Is 14-bit RAW better than 12-bit RAW?
A regular JPEG image has only 8 bits to store information about the tone of each pixel. When storing the image in RAW format (for example, DNG), we can store tone using more bits per pixel, which ...
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How many bits of data are typically actually captured by a digital camera sensor?
In a comment on this question someone suggested that camera sensors typically only output 12-14 bits of data. I was surprised because that would mean that 24 bits of color is only useful for doing ...
