Re: python PIL 16-bit tiff files
Oliver Tonnhofer <[email protected]>
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On 12.04.2010, at 14:34, Sebastian Haase wrote: > My point was also, that I would doubt that there is physically(!) more > information than 16e6 possible values per pixel. > A digital gray scale CCD camera with more than 12 bits costs multiple > 1000s of Euros or Dollars... Every current DSLR camera has more than 8bits per color, a Canon EOS 450D has 14bit for example. While a human eye might not see any difference with more than 8bits, you can use the information when manipulating the image (e.g. change the exposure/brightness). Regards, Oliver _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig