[Konvas] color correction in post (was: first test time lapse ... with 7D)

[Adam Frey]

On Mar 11, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Adam Frey wrote:
> While we're on the topic, talking about RGB bits is a pain, since 24- 
> bit is really just 8-bit multiplied by the 3 color channels, and 48- 
> bit is 16-bit also multiplied by the 3 color channels. But even  
> those numbers don't even remotely add up to the 16 million colors  
> your talking about (8-bit is 2^8 = 256. 16-bit is 2^16 = 65536).

Ahhh - found the error in my math. It's not 8-bit * 3 color channels.  
It's 8-bit to the 3rd power:

8-bit = 2^8
2^8 = 256 colors
256^3 = 16777216

I had to look up the term Truecolor.


Cheers,

Adam Frey
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