It's interesting how in this age of displays and video we're finally shedding the idea of 8 bits per channel. The stuff I've been shooting in film I've been sca

It's interesting how in this age of displays and video we're finally shedding the idea of 8 bits per channel. The stuff I've been shooting in film I've been scanning in with a Flextight Precision II which has a sensor that claims to have a 16 bit DAC per channel. Scanning in RGB 16 bit definitely helps with color banding. However, it's kinda like having access to a video camera that records in 16K, but you're only going to be able to view it on a 4K display. What's really interesting is if you use an old film recorder like a Lasergraphics LFR M3 (something in the $25,000 range in 1998) and don't mind dropping to a max resolution of 8K and 12 bits per channel, you can somewhat preserve that RGB16 image back to film. Like yeah, this was professional level equipment in the tens of thousands of dollars in the late 90's, but some of the consumer technologies still haven't caught up. It speaks volumes to how limited the human eye is and how much technology surpassed it a long time ago.