"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> No, because it's better to have an 8bit number with bigger steps in
> brightness at the higher end, because that's how your eyes work.  If the
> difference in brightness between 4,4,4 and 5,5,5 were the same as
> 254,254,254 and 255,255,255 (ie gamma 1.0) then we would see even worse
> "colour banding" for darker colours than we do currently with 8 bit
> hardware, and at the top end there would be an even less visible change for
> each step.

100% agree. That's one of the reasons I typically do only HDR output these days.
Did I mention that I like MegaPOV? :)

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