> > Technically true, but since your eyes have a very difficult (if not
> > impossible) time distinguishing more than 8 bits of color, one could
> > argue differently too. :-)
>
>   Actually for B/W images 8 bits can sometimes be too little, specially
> when dealing with large areas of very slowly changing shades of gray.

To add to that: I'm on 32bit for my Desktop, because I'm seeing bands of
colors when using only 16bit with my raytraced images (which is hence the
reason why I output to 24bit BMP most of the time). Since Windows offers me
only 16 or 32, I'm on 32.

Regards,
Tim

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