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<blockquote data-quote="480sparky" data-source="post: 596449" data-attributes="member: 15805">If you toss both up on the screen side-by-side, they most likely will look identical.&nbsp; It's rare for people to have monitors that are capable of displaying anything more than 8-bit images anyway.No.&nbsp; A 12-bit raw file has the ability to save 4,096 distinct color hues for each pixel, for each color channel.&nbsp; So each pixel (even though in a rendered JPEG) is able to draw upon (4,096 x 4,096 x 4,096 =) 68,719,476,736 different colors for editing.&nbsp; Up your camera to to 14 bit, and you have 16,384 distinct hues of each of the red, green and blue channels, or (16,384 x 16,384 x 16,384 = ) 4,398,046,511,104 colors for each pixel.JPEGs, which by definition, are 8-bit images.&nbsp; Meaning, they can only record 256 distinct hues of each of the red, green and blue channels, or (256 x 256 x 256 = ) 16,777,216 colors for each pixel.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="480sparky, post: 596449, member: 15805"] If you toss both up on the screen side-by-side, they most likely will look identical. It's rare for people to have monitors that are capable of displaying anything more than 8-bit images anyway. No. A 12-bit raw file has the ability to save 4,096 distinct color hues for each pixel, for each color channel. So each pixel (even though in a rendered JPEG) is able to draw upon (4,096 x 4,096 x 4,096 =) 68,719,476,736 different colors for editing. Up your camera to to 14 bit, and you have 16,384 distinct hues of each of the red, green and blue channels, or (16,384 x 16,384 x 16,384 = ) [B]4,398,046,511,104[/B] colors for each pixel. JPEGs, which by definition, are 8-bit images. Meaning, they can only record 256 distinct hues of each of the red, green and blue channels, or (256 x 256 x 256 = ) 16,777,216 colors for each pixel. [/QUOTE]

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