Bit Depth

[Phil_The_Rodent]

Okay, I have to post something, and yeah, I figured this was the best place for it. Okay, I'm just sorting out stuff on bit depth.

Assuming we're in 8-bit colour mode we have:

8 bits for greyscale mode
16 bits for duotone, or two colour eps
24 bits for RGB
32 bits for CMYK

So I just got a scanner that does 48-bit colour. Does this mean it scans 16-bit RGB? Or is it something else?

[perfect circle]

According to what I read here (http://www.scantips.com/basics14.html) Phil, I think you are right.

-pc

[Phil_The_Rodent]

*boggles*

Thanks for the link Perfect Circle :). Can anybody tell me what this means? All I can read from this (between the lines) is that 48-bit colour means nothing at all, and is irrelevant.