Hello John, 16 bit has more working room to manipulate the image when altering with curves and such - for a quick explanation. Since the sensor captures at 12 bits, if you convert to 8 bit jpg or tiff you are throwing away information.
-- Best regards, Bruce Monday, April 11, 2005, 3:10:33 PM, you wrote: JM> Bruce, why do you convert your RAWs to 16 bit Tiff? JM> Thanks - John JM> Bruce Dayton wrote: JM> "...Converted from Raw to Tiff 16 bit in Capture One LE ...."

