>> But then, isn't film inherantly noisy too?
> 
> Not really, not in the way digital image sensors are.

Really? I thought film was well-known for being grainy at low light 
levels...

>> Heh, not even DCT artifacts? :-P
> 
> No, just some banding in the sky due to you effectively losing the last 
> 2 least significant bits of data.

I'll have to try it at some point I guess.

> BTW, on a lot of digital cameras now you can save your images in "raw" 
> format, which is usually 12-bit per channel.

My camera isn't that expensive.

(Kinda amusing how not denying access to data is a "feature", eh?)

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