Re: [APML] Fw: images

>In fact, it takes a FILM person to trully appreciate what a CCD can do
>.... downloading 16 bit data right out of the sky is more meaningful to a
>film person than to any CCD newbie ... what do they know about being >stuck
>in an 8 bit world?

Hi Tony

I have to desagree a little with you. Film isn't limited to the 8bits. Becouse it is a chemical medium, I think that the only limitation that we face with the bit deph is the scanner quality. Most modern scanners have a value higher than 10 bits (there are some that works with 16bits), and of course they generate 16bits files. Also, we have the possibility to integrate several film images to increase the SNR, and in some ways the bit deph is increased too. Of course we need a software that matches that potential. Before Photoshop CS we where in fact limited... but now we have other softwares as well that works with 16 and 32bits. I am convinced that film shots can be pushed to higher levels with the new digital tools, as well with the stacking procedure. There are a lot of techniques that most of film guys don't use, but it is possible to apply them. Just for example think of deconvolution or wavelet processing. Also we can make pseudo-flat images, in a better way than lin ear gradients or bluring. Just see the work that Wei-Hao is doing in that field.
What am I trying to say with all of this? Simple. Film shots are highly subestimated, and there is a lot more to do than we have seen in the past years.

PS: Just in any case, I am not an enemy of the CCDs. In fact I have used a ST7... and I follow very closely the work of guys like Daniel Vershatse, Volker Wender, Robert Gendler, and of course you. I wish I'd could have the equipment you use. <g>