Another interesting note from a passage in the review of Leica M8:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/revie ... a-m8.shtml
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16 Bit
Leica has published that the M8 is a sixteen bit device. As soon as the first raw files became available though there were postings online that the files were only 8 bit. To get to the bottom of this I once again turned to Dr. Know. ("It's OK Michael, this won't hurt a bit"). What he told me is that the M8's DNG files are definitely 8 bit, not 16 bit. They may be 16 bit somewhere upstream of the DNG file, but the output file is in 8 bit format. I asked if there were any true 16 bit files from any camera. he said that he had never seen one (and he's seen them all). He said that files from Phase One backs are 14 bit (they too claim to be 16 bit), Canon raw files are 12 bit, and that various other cameras range from 8 to 12 bits.
What the implications of this are isn't clear. If I get a clarification on what Leica means when they write in their brochures that the M8 has "16 bit color resolution" I'll let you know.
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