Re: 16 bits grayscale images

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- alex <legars2101 gmail com> wrote:

> > If you don't expect the graphics system to be actually
> > capable of displaying 16bpc images, it is easiest to just
> > convert the data to 8bpp RGB (which is a trivial operation).
> > 
> > Yeti
> 
> For display I can convert to 8 bits, but to create and record the image
> I have to keep 16 bits of information for each pixels...
> I need the 16 bits for histogram, average, ...
> 

Exactly my point.

First processing with/at full accuracy, then display at whatever accuracy the display
device allows.

--Sergei.

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