"The same effect makes it nearly meaningless to talk about the number of
colors used by a JPEG image."
See subject 8
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/
Unfortunately it seems to say more what it isn't than what it is.
-jeff
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> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:39:57 -0700, Moose wrote:
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> > The question that I don't know the answer to is why there isn't a JPEG12
> > image format. The amount of extra programming effort to carry 12 bits,
> > rather than 8 or 16, should be trivial.
> >
> > Moose
>
> Does it matter that RAW is 12bit linear while JPG is 8bit log? Some
> photography website had an article about this (no, it wasn't L-L.com, but
> someone else, ken something?)
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