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Hi,

Some advice please.

As a relative "newbie" to this game, I'm curious as to why one would want
to use 12 bit pixel depth  when capturing images at 1024X1024 images. This
would give over 4000 grey scales as opposed to 255 (8 bit). Isn't 255 enough?

Here are some comments I received wrt some images I recently produced.
These were made for metamorph quantification, not necessarily for high
resolution.

Only 8 bit pixel depth (256 gray scales) imaging used, not
appropriate with 1024X1024 image sizes, which defeats the purpose
acquiring high of resolution images from these large scans.
  Should use 12 bit imaging  as minimum with frame scan (can use 12
bit 1024x1024 for images to be printed.



??????


Danny.