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How many colors and shades can the human eye distinguish in a single scene?
How many distinct colors, shades, hues, and tints can the average person distinguish in a single scene? In other words, what's the theoretical bit-depth required to be sure of recording a photograph ...
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How can dynamic-range be larger than sensor bit-depth?
Found something that confused me and so I thought the crowd here can probably answer this one since its camera-related and technical at the same time.
How can dynamic-range be larger than sensor ...
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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 ...
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Does the Nikon D4 capture 16-bit images?
I keep seeing mentions of the D4's 16-bit imaging pipeline but I'm having a hard time finding any information or specifications on what exactly that means. Does that mean the sensor captures images ...
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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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Is conversion to 16 bit needed for good PP results when working on JPEG images?
When working on JPEG files, should I start by converting the images to 16 bit depth? Supposedly that would make for more room for the adjustments I'm going to make on the photos. Two occasions that ...
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What's the brightness depth of IPhone 5 camera in bits?
Likely this will be the same as the color depth in bits per channel.
For digital cameras it can be 8bit or 12bit and sometimes as high as 14bit. What is it for the IPhone 5?
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Scan using Image Capture at more than 8-bits bit depth
I have an HP Deskjet 3054. I'm scanning using Apple's Image Capture app, and am trying to set the bit-depth to something higher than the default as all of my images come into Photoshop as 8-bit.
I'd ...
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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 ...
