Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can hear the marketeers sharpening their word processors now: "Is your camera *only* 16-bit? Your photos will not have that--je ne sais quoi--unless you upgrade to our new, improved 32-bit camera." Yet another number to razzle-dazzle 'em with, along with megapixel count. But what we're really saying is that going from the D60 to the 10D represents an upgrade to Windows 98. :-) - --Peter "Your camera has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" Klein >At 6:50 AM -0800 2/2/04, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > >The Shutterbug talk made me think about it. And I'm going from memory here. > >They had a piece on the 4 gig flash card. In it, they say that with current > >cameras it turns into a 2 gig card, as one would need a 32 bit system to > >activate the 4 gig capability. That can only mean one thing, a 32 bit camera > >might be in the pipeline somewhere. > >S. Dimitrov And Henning Wulff replied: >In this case 32bit refers to the file allocation system. The 16bit >system used on most cameras (whether they produce 8bit/channel or >higher images) can only address up to 2Gb. The 32bit system, called >FAT32 (for File Allocation Table) can address terabytes, and is >necessary to make use of anything over 2Gb. >So the Canon D60 and the 10D are both high bit cameras, in that they >can produce RAW files than can be converted into 16bit/channel (48bit >RGB or 64bit CMYK) Photoshop files, but the D60 is not FAT32 >compatible, and thus using 4Gb cards in it is pointless, as it can >only access 2Gb, while the 10D is FAT32 compatible, and can make use >of any card now and in the next number of years. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html